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    Front Row at Michael Bennet’s Senate-Floor Dismantling of Ted Cruz

    By Timothy Denevi  January 25, 2019
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    Advice

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    Deconstructing Old Stories to Tell Them in New Ways

    By Daisy Johnson  January 25, 2019
    Historical Fiction

    The Story of a Slave State, a Free State, and the River Separating Them

    By New Books Network  January 25, 2019
    Essay

    My Name is Fritz Mayer: An Account of Buchenwald

    By Mark Mayer  January 25, 2019
    Essay

    How Virginia Woolf Taught Me to Mourn

    By Katharine Smyth  January 25, 2019
    Poets

    “Duty,” A Poem by Sarah Gambito

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    Diana Athill’s Reflections on Aging and Life

    By Diana Athill  January 24, 2019
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    Close Reading

    Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story

    By Emily Van Duyne  January 24, 2019
    Religion

    R.O. Kwon and Paul Harding Talk God and Faith in American Fiction


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    Essay

    A Brief Literary History of Davos

    By Isabelle Mayault  January 24, 2019
    Essay

    When the Sentimental Clutter in Your Life is a Whole Piano

    By Chris Cander  January 24, 2019
    Excerpts

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the Cusp of 100

    By Jonah Raskin  January 24, 2019
    Awards

    When a Very Small Press Wins a Pulitzer

    By Paul Harding  January 24, 2019
    Nuclear Power

    The Climate Crisis Requires Us to Use All the Tools We Have

    By Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist  January 24, 2019
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    Essay

    Kristen Arnett: Am I a Librarian or a Writer?

    By Kristen Arnett  January 23, 2019
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    Dani Shapiro: Did My Parents Even Know?

    By Dani Shapiro  January 23, 2019
    Close Reading

    On the Overlooked Eroticism of Mary Oliver

    By Jeanna Kadlec  January 23, 2019
    Conversations

    Maurice Ruffin, First (Literary) Citizen of New Orleans

    By Jami Attenberg  January 23, 2019
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    A State-By-State Survey of Literary Masterpieces

    By Emily Temple  January 23, 2019
    Excerpts

    In Aristotle’s Ideal Democracy, a Good Citizen Was a Good Friend

    By Edith Hall  January 23, 2019
    Burning Out

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    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 23, 2019
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