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American Nightmare: Alice Driver on the Immigrants Who Risked Their Lives at a Meatpacking Plant During Covid

American Nightmare: Alice Driver on the Immigrants Who Risked Their Lives at a Meatpacking Plant During Covid

The Author of “Life and Death of the American Worker” in Conversation with Sarah Viren

By Sarah Viren | September 5, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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Toward a More Generous Pedagogy

Toward a More Generous Pedagogy

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By Michele Herman | September 5, 2024

Letting Places Grow Like Characters: Transforming Your Hometown into a Fictional World

Letting Places Grow Like Characters: Transforming Your Hometown into a Fictional World

Shannon Bowring on Setting a Book’s Sequel in the Same, Yet Evolving, Literary Universe

By Shannon Bowring | September 5, 2024

“A Word About a Word Addressed to a Word.” On Embracing the Fictiveness of Fiction

“A Word About a Word Addressed to a Word.” On Embracing the Fictiveness of Fiction

For Maureen Sun Transparency Is Not Always a Virtue

By Maureen Sun | September 5, 2024

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Alissa Quart on the Dangerous Lie of American Bootstrap Narratives

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Rachel Kushner on Crafting a Philosophical Spy Novel For an Age of Environmental Anxiety

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Building Another Kind of Peace: How Poetry Help Can Calm Our Tumultuous Spirits

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How Our Diet and Culinary Heritage Informs the Way We Speak

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How Arabic Translations of Ancient Greek Texts Started a New Scientific Revolution

How Arabic Translations of Ancient Greek Texts Started a New Scientific Revolution

Josephine Quinn on the Myth that Arabic Translations Merely Preserved Greek Literature

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Space Eurovision and the Countess of Monte Cristo: September’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

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Archive of the Forgotten: Charles Yu on Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude

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