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What Does It Mean to Call an Idea American?

On the Intellectual Genealogy of the United States
February 14, 2019  By Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
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Notes on My Literary Minimalism

Carol Guess Considers Subtraction, in Writing and in Life
February 14, 2019  By Carol Guess
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Notes on an Italian Getaway in Australia

The View from a Transcontinental Journey on the Indian Pacific
February 13, 2019  By Beppe Severgnini
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Beneath the Streets of Paris, in Search of the Cataphiles

Revelry, Mayhem, and Illicit Movie Theaters, Under the City of Light
February 12, 2019  By Will Hunt
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Sense or Sensibility… What if Jane Austen Had to Choose?

Devoney Looser Considers the Mind vs. the Heart
February 11, 2019  By Devoney Looser
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On the Intoxicating Alchemy of Pottery

In Search of the Color of Dreams
February 11, 2019  By Anuradha Roy
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Standing at Ground Zero for UFO Believers

A Scientist Studies Our Need to Believe in Aliens
February 8, 2019  By D.W. Pasulka
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On the Anxiety and Vanity of Marcel Proust, Debut Novelist

World Wars Aren't Necessarily Bad for Groundbreaking Novel Cycles
February 7, 2019  By William C. Carter
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Contemporary Workplace Culture is Toxic… But Maybe Not Fatal?

Matt Haig on the Lows and Highs of Making a Living
February 7, 2019  By Matt Haig
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A Dream Job Too Good To Be True, a Story Too Weird to Believe

Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman, Mediocre Violinist, on Playing for "The Composer"
February 7, 2019  By Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
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How Far Can Our Outrage Go?

Wendy Willis on the Merits (and Pitfalls) of Moral Rage
February 6, 2019  By Wendy Willis
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“You Can’t Discuss Palestinian Food Without Talking About the Occupation.”

Yasmin Khan on the Joys of Palestinian Cuisine
February 5, 2019  By Yasmin Khan
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How Did So Many Writers Get Access to Opiates?

Mapping Addiction, From Cocteau to Burroughs
February 5, 2019  By Lucy Inglis
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Beirut, Modernism’s Vanished Utopia

Poets, Politics, and Freedom Before Lebanon's Civil War
February 4, 2019  By Robyn Creswell
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How We Use Stunning Visuals to Tell the Stories of Science

13 Unforgettable Images by Photographer Felice Frankel
January 31, 2019  By Felice C. Frankel
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The Act of Resistance the Nazis Used to Justify Kristallnacht

On the Assassination of Ernst vom Rath by 17-Year-Old Herschel Grynszpan
January 31, 2019  By Stephen Koch
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A Brief History of Guantanamo Bay, America’s “Idyllic Prison Camp”

A Hundred Years at the Edge of Empire
January 30, 2019  By Stephen Benz
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One Family’s Story of the Great Migration North

Bridgett M. Davis Tracks Her Mother's Journey from Nashville to Detroit
January 30, 2019  By Bridgett M. Davis
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Want To Be Happy? Live Like a Woman Over 50

"Happiness depends on how we deal with what we are given."
January 29, 2019  By Mary Pipher
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Can Environmental Activism Succeed in China?

On the Aftereffects of the "Economic Miracle"
January 28, 2019  By Klaus Mühlhahn
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