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The Time Halldor Laxness Was Almost Deported from America

And How the ACLU Saved Him
November 21, 2018  By Halldór Guðmundsson
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Weird Hangover Cures
Through the Ages

From Human Skulls to the "Milk of Human Kindness"
November 20, 2018  By Shaugnessy Bishop-Stall
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The Story of an Iconic Statue:
Behind Degas’s Little Dancer

Who Was Marie van Goethem?
November 20, 2018  By Camille Laurens
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The Ripple Effect of Death in a Hotel

Mikita Brottman on the Protocols and Pitfalls of Dealing with a Body
November 20, 2018  By Mikita Brottman
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On the Manufactured “Sex Appeal”
of Vladimir Putin

Lara Vapnyar Has Some Thoughts on Russia's Brutal, Bear-Wrestling "Husband"
November 20, 2018  By Lara Vapnyar
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How Should We Write in a Time of Unmitigated Disaster?

On Precarity and Socially Responsible Writing
November 19, 2018  By Ashleigh Synnott
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From Adderall to Opioids, the Personal Side of an American Tragedy

On the Silent Spread of a Nationwide Killer
November 19, 2018  By Chris McGreal
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Glimpses of a Transformative Primary School in Johannesburg

How Race and Class Divisions Still Shape South African Lives
November 19, 2018  By Malaika wa Azania
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What the Stoic Philosophers Knew About Being Free

The Best Path to Freedom? First, Take a Breather.
November 16, 2018  By A.A. Long
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The CIA-Soviet Culture Wars That Shaped American Art

Who's Afraid of Communist Writers?
November 16, 2018  By Juliana Spahr
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What It’s Like to Be Rejected by Your Religious Family

Jessica Wilbanks On the Pain of "Falling from the Nest"
November 16, 2018  By Jessica Wilbanks
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Jonathan Franzen’s 10 Rules
for Novelists

Number Eight Just Makes Us Sad
November 15, 2018  By Jonathan Franzen
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How Saul Bellow Reckoned
with Money and Fame

"Guys, I'm Rich. What Can I Get For You?"
November 15, 2018  By Zachary Leader
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How to Arrange an 1890s-Style Shotgun Wedding

Dueling Affairs and a Scandal That Rocked Washington
November 15, 2018  By Patricia Miller
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My Parents’ Wedding Was Arranged. I Wanted Something Different.

Huda Al-Marashi on a Not So Typical American Love Story
November 15, 2018  By Huda Al-Marashi
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How America Remembers Emmett Till

"Hatred could not justify child murder, but fear could."
November 15, 2018  By Elliott Gorn
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On the Complicated Legacy of American Country Music

Soundtrack to the Embattled Claims of Folk Culture
November 14, 2018  By Literary Hub
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Adventures in Insomnia: Sleep Diets, Weird Dreams, and the Singularity

Marina Benjamin on Nighttime's Wayward Rhythms
November 14, 2018  By Marina Benjamin
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Dirty Dancing Belongs
in the Lesbian Rom-Com Canon

Esther Newton Makes an Important Case
November 14, 2018  By Esther Newton
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Wouldn’t It Be Great To Directly Perceive the Warping of Space-Time?

Astronomer Chris Impey is Out Here Asking the Important Questions
November 14, 2018  By Chris Impey
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