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    Personal Essay

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    Against Skinny Speech

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    By Reading Women  April 24, 2019
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    By Ara A. Francis  April 24, 2019
    Empire

    The ‘Dark Ages’ Weren’t As Dark
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    Craft and Criticism

    Scenes From a Marriage:
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    By Blake Hazard  April 24, 2019
    Features

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    Craft and Criticism

    On Editing Oliver Sacks After
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    Travel

    Can You Save a Dying Italian Town with the Art of Storytelling?

    By Alessandra Bergamin  April 23, 2019
    Journalism

    How John Hersey Revealed the Horrors of the Atomic Bomb to the US

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    Climate Change Library

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    Shakespeare

    Was Shakespeare Agnostic About
    the Afterlife?

    By John S. Garrison  April 23, 2019
    Writing

    The Failures of a Wunderkind:
    On Rejection and Persistence

    By Michael Croley  April 23, 2019
    Anniversaries

    Amy Tan Reflects on 30 Years Since
    The Joy Luck Club

    By Amy Tan  April 23, 2019
    Poem

    A Poem by Robin Coste Lewis

    By Robin Coste Lewis  April 23, 2019
    News and Culture

    Ian McEwan on Bach, Philip Roth and Living an Episodic Life

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    Climate Change Library

    Every Day is Earth Day: 365 Books to Start Your Climate Change Library

    By Literary Hub  April 22, 2019
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    Lit Hub Daily: April 22, 2019

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    Climate Change

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    By Bill McKibben  April 22, 2019
    Climate Change

    What Should We Send Into Space as a New Record of Humanity?

    By Mireille Juchau  April 22, 2019
    Beekeeping

    How We Can Save the Honeybees

    By Meredith May  April 22, 2019
    Poem

    ‘The valley,’
    A Poem by Jean Valentine

    By Jean Valentine  April 22, 2019
    Features

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    The Nuclear Age

    The Real Story Behind the Creation
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    By Aaron Tucker  April 22, 2019
    Correspondence

    Isabella Hammad: A Book is Like a Letter—Not Often Addressed to Us

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    Literary Criticism

    A Tribute to Beat Writer Bobbie Louise Hawkins

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