The Real Life Castaway Behind Robinson Crusoe Actually <em>Asked</em> to Be Dropped Off

The Real Life Castaway Behind Robinson Crusoe Actually Asked to Be Dropped Off

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5 Climate Change Books to Listen To This Spring

5 Climate Change Books to Listen To This Spring

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The View from the Middle of Everything

The View from the Middle of Everything

Dispatches From Flatville, Illinois

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Dreaming of Being a Writer When You've Never Actually Met One

Dreaming of Being a Writer When You've Never Actually Met One

On Growing Up in the Literary Backwaters of Missouri

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On Early 20th-Century America's Unhealthy Fixation with 'Hygiene'

On Early 20th-Century America's Unhealthy Fixation with 'Hygiene'

Junk Science, Paternalism, and a Misplaced Faith in 'Expertise'

By Anne Harrington | April 25, 2019

When a Family Has More <br>Than One Writer

When a Family Has More
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What Memories Are Off Limits?

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Moving Back to West Virginia, in Fiction and in Life

Moving Back to West Virginia, in Fiction and in Life

Mesha Maren Returns Home in Sugar Run

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Finding My Character's Home <br>on Google Street View

Finding My Character's Home
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Lydia Fitzpatrick Wanders Through the Arctic Circle

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What I Learned from Keeping a List<br> of Every Book I Read

What I Learned from Keeping a List
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Tressie McMillan Cottom on Thinking Thick and Cannibalizing Trauma

Tressie McMillan Cottom on Thinking Thick and Cannibalizing Trauma

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An App to Remind You You're Going to Die? On Death Positivity

An App to Remind You You're Going to Die? On Death Positivity

How Death-Positive Activism Has—and Hasn't—Changed in 40 Years

By Ara A. Francis | April 24, 2019

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