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How a Mathematical Model Rescued My Book About Math

How a Mathematical Model Rescued My Book About Math

Ben Orlin Used Calculus to Fix His Floundering Draft

By Ben Orlin | December 17, 2019

Why (and How, Exactly) Did Early Humans Start Cooking?

Why (and How, Exactly) Did Early Humans Start Cooking?

Guy Crosby on the Connection Between the Way We Eat
and Who We Are

By Guy Crosby | December 17, 2019

River Nomads, Liveaboards, Canal-Dwellers and Other People of the Water

River Nomads, Liveaboards, Canal-Dwellers and Other People of the Water

Laura Trethewey on Water-Based Communities Fighting for Survival

By Laura Trethewey | December 17, 2019

A Season of Books Takes Stock<br> of #MeToo

A Season of Books Takes Stock
of #MeToo

Kaylen Ralph on She Said, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh, and Know My Name

By Kaylen Ralph | December 17, 2019

For Elena Ferrante, What Distinguishes Conventional Male and Female Friendships?

For Elena Ferrante, What Distinguishes Conventional Male and Female Friendships?

The Liberating Messiness of the Neapolitan Quartet Friendship

By Tiziana de Rogatis | December 17, 2019

Teaching High Schoolers the Ingenuity and Prowess of Poetry

Teaching High Schoolers the Ingenuity and Prowess of Poetry

Nick Ripatrazone Speaks to Teacher Joel Mayo

By Nick Ripatrazone | December 17, 2019

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On the Dumping Grounds of Fuerteventura, the Real Isle of Dogs

By Matthew Gavin Frank | December 17, 2019

Finding Nuance and Much-Needed Relief in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee

By Mira Jacob | December 17, 2019

LIC Reading Series Podcast: Simeon Marsalis, Cynan Jones, Lynne Tillman

By LIC Reading Series | December 17, 2019

Matt Gallagher Reads His Short Story

Matt Gallagher Reads His Short Story "Know Your Enemy: Celebrating 50 Years of the Forever War"

From Our Radio Theater Podcast, Storybound

By Storybound | December 17, 2019

Here is Werner Herzog's Eerie Prose Script for <em>Nosferatu the Vampyre</em>

Here is Werner Herzog's Eerie Prose Script for Nosferatu the Vampyre

To Be Read Aloud in His Voice, Obviously

By Werner Herzog | December 16, 2019

Bringing Hitler's Hidden Army to Justice

Bringing Hitler's Hidden Army to Justice

Nazi-Hunting in America

By Debbie Cenziper | December 16, 2019

For John Berger, the Time We Feel Most Deeply Can't Be Kept on a Clock

For John Berger, the Time We Feel Most Deeply Can't Be Kept on a Clock

Gabrielle Bellot on Berger's Final Collaboration

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 16, 2019

Meet a Bad Man Who Became<br> a Truly Great Spy

Meet a Bad Man Who Became
a Truly Great Spy

Owen Matthews on Richard Sorge, Master of Espionage

By Owen Matthews | December 16, 2019

Scattering a Mother's Ashes: On Grief, Intimacy, and Renewal

Scattering a Mother's Ashes: On Grief, Intimacy, and Renewal

From the Memoir in Progress of William Pierce

By William Pierce | December 16, 2019

The Seeds of Ancestors: A Day at Soul Fire Farm

The Seeds of Ancestors: A Day at Soul Fire Farm

A Profile of Leah Penniman on the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | December 16, 2019

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