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Christopher Chen on Jorge Luis Borges’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”

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How Charles Darwin Became a 19th-Century Scientific Rock Star

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Howard Markel on the Debate That Forever Transformed Our Understanding of the Natural World

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How Reading Grief Memoirs Helped Cody Delistraty Understand His Loss in New Ways

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Playing With Time: On the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s <em>Einstein’s Dreams</em>

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The Literary Power of Hobbits: How JRR Tolkien Shaped Modern Fantasy

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