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What Happens When You Live Strictly According to the Original Constitution in Present Day New York City?

What Happens When You Live Strictly According to the Original Constitution in Present Day New York City?

In Which A.J. Jacobs Carries a Musket Around Manhattan

By A.J. Jacobs | May 16, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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What Comes For Us All: Read Elias Canetti on the Many Guises of Death

What Comes For Us All: Read Elias Canetti on the Many Guises of Death

On Those Who End Life and Those Whose Lives End

By Elias Canetti | May 16, 2024

We’re Not in Winesburg Anymore: On the Literature of the Small Town

We’re Not in Winesburg Anymore: On the Literature of the Small Town

Carolyn Kuebler Recommends Kathryn Davis, Linda Legarde Grover, Jon McGregor, and More

By Carolyn Kuebler | May 16, 2024

The Secret Master: On Translating the Forgotten Argentine Writer Ángel Bonomini

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Jordan Landsman Remembers the Writer Admired by Jorge Luis Borges, Alberto Manguel, and Others

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Paternal Instinct: Why Men Go Gaga Over Babies, Too

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Sisterhood of the Traveling Stories: On the Literature of Fictional Sisters

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Kiyo Sato on Japanese American Incarceration’s Language of Dehumanization

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