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On the Mysterious, Powerful
Effects of Placebos

And What They Reveal About the Force of Hope
March 12, 2018  By Lauren Slater
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How Leo and Gertrude Stein
Revolutionized the Art World

Miles J. Unger on the Early Patrons of Picasso and Matisse
March 12, 2018  By Miles J. Unger
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Hilary Mantel: “We Still Work to a Man’s Timetable and a Man’s Agenda”

On Pain, Ambition, and Children
March 9, 2018  By Elizabeth Renzetti
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Networks: Another Thing Silicon Valley Didn’t Actually Invent

Andrew Keen in Conversation with Niall Ferguson
March 9, 2018  By Andrew Keen
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Why Do We Still Buy
Mass-Produced Souvenirs?

Rolf Potts on Tourism, Kitsch, and the Eternal Tchotchke
March 8, 2018  By Rolf Potts
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The President Has Too Much Power
to Make War

If Trump Can't Make Us See the Danger of Presidential Power, Who Will?
March 8, 2018  By Bruce Ackerman
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The Onstage Origins of Van Morrison’s Legendary Astral Weeks

Boston, the Summer of 1968, Screaming Teenagers...
March 7, 2018  By Ryan H. Walsh
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I Call Your Name Whenever I Can: The Letters of Pat Parker and Audre Lorde

"Beware Feeling You’re Not Good Enough to Deserve It"
March 7, 2018  By Literary Hub
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It’s Not Easy Running a Retirement Home for Old Dancing Bears

Small-Town Bulgarians Wonder Why the Bears Get Strawberries
March 6, 2018  By Witold Szablowski
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How I Ended Up Writing the Legendary Paul Robeson’s Biography

Martin Duberman Looks Back at a Life in Writing
March 5, 2018  By Martin Duberman
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When Rousseau Advocated
for Book-Burning

One of France's Great Philosophers, a Troll Ahead of His Time
March 2, 2018  By William Marx
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The World Might Not Be As
Disastrous As We Think It Is

Steven Pinker on the Virulence of Contemporary Pessimism
March 1, 2018  By Steven Pinker
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The Silicon Spies: Public Money and Private Surveillance

How the American Government Invests in Data-Gathering Start-Ups
February 27, 2018  By Yasha Levine
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John Banville: On the Undreamed
Lives of My Parents

Quiet Lives of Desperation Aren't Always as Desperate as They Look
February 27, 2018  By John Banville
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How the Irish Teach Us to Die

Kevin Toolis in Praise of a Good Wake
February 27, 2018  By Kevin Toolis
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Behind the Most Famous
Photograph Ever Taken

How We See the Earth Changes How We See Ourselves
February 26, 2018  By Christopher Potter
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The Trouble with Boys: On Masculinity in the Age of Trump

Peggy Orenstein Talks to Teenagers about Sexuality, Consent, and Harassment
February 26, 2018  By Peggy Orenstein
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Acquiring Books for the Greatest Libraries in the World

Adventures in the 18th-Century Book Trade
February 23, 2018  By Alexander Bevilacqua
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On the Eerie, Enduring Power of
the Rorschach Test

How a 100-Year-Old Test Still Reveals More Than We Think
February 22, 2018  By Damion Searls
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The Spiritual Sisters of
Simone de Beauvoir

On Édith Thomas, Domi­nique Aury, and the Women of Postwar France
February 22, 2018  By Agnès Poirier
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