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What Makes Language Human?

What Makes Language Human?

Caleb Everett on Syntax and Recursion

By Caleb Everett | September 21, 2023

Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood

Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood

"Faith gave the women around me strengths and simultaneous burdens."

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We Need a Motherf*cking Break: On Mom Rage and the Fantasy of Joint Custody

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By Minna Dubin | September 21, 2023

As I Lay Dying: Five Books that Reckon with Illness and Time

As I Lay Dying: Five Books that Reckon with Illness and Time

Maria Smilios Recommends Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Tova Bailey & More

By Maria Smilios | September 21, 2023

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