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On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt Whitman

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“The first experience of literary love tends, like the first experience of erotic love, to come in youth.”

By Mark Edmundson | April 9, 2021

How to Raise Your Children on the History of Protest

How to Raise Your Children on the History of Protest

From Nate Powell’s Graphic Novel, Save It For Later

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Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

Stephanie Dray on the Historical Mysteries of the
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Subverting the Script of the Adoption Industrial Complex

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Tiana Nobile on Resisting the Erasure of Adoptees’ Stories

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