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Reading Mahfouz: Egyptian Literature Between Old and New, Freedom and Censorship

You Can’t Choose Your Influences: On the Unexpected Book That Made Me a Writer

Jonathan Rauch Contemplates (and Fears) a Post-Democratic America

Great Women Through the Ages: A Historical Fiction Reading List

Chantal V. Johnson on Childhood Abuse and Disclosure

What to Make of America On Its 246th Birthday

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