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9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

A Syllabus of Authoritarians Who Thought They Might Be Artists

By Ed Simon | June 21, 2017

Measuring the Decline of America's First Company Town, One Crack at a Time

Measuring the Decline of America's First Company Town, One Crack at a Time

Lawrence Lenhart Offers a Very Personal Case Study in Rust Belt Decline

By Lawrence Lenhart | June 20, 2017

Forrest Trump: On the Donald's Many Cameos in American Literature

Forrest Trump: On the Donald's Many Cameos in American Literature

Susan Rieger Finds Him Everywhere, From Twain to Wharton to Lewis...

By Susan Rieger | June 20, 2017

Daring to Drive (And Write About It) in Saudi Arabia

Daring to Drive (And Write About It) in Saudi Arabia

Speaking with Manal al-Sharif about Defiance and Disclosure

By Sabrina Toppa | June 19, 2017

What Would Kurt Vonnegut Think of Donald Trump?

What Would Kurt Vonnegut Think of Donald Trump?

At this Trumpian moment, we have to come to a Vonnegutian conclusion

By Marc Leeds | June 15, 2017

The Hollow Mythology of Ronald Reagan

The Hollow Mythology of Ronald Reagan

No One Really Cared When Dutch Asked Gorbachev to 'Tear Down This Wall'

By Tim Mohr | June 12, 2017

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Writer Erri De Luca on a Two-Week Rescue Mission

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What is Money, Anyway?

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Revealing the Unwritten Obstacles Faced by Academics of Color

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