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Jim Jones and Me: On Growing Up Guyanese-American in the Shadow of Jonestown

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Afsheen Farhadi Considers How the Multifaceted Memory of the Infamous Cult Inspired His Debut Novel

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A Poet’s Account of the Power of the Yodel

A Poet’s Account of the Power of the Yodel

“One has to be willing to humiliate oneself in order to yodel, there is no spiritual bypass.”

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Plato’s <em>Symposium</em> Is Actually About Love

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Cat Fitzpatrick Finds Inspiration in Philosophy’s Most Famous Dinner Party

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This Week in Literary History: Ernest Hemingway is Wounded on the Italian Front

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“When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you.”

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