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Rick Moody on the Case of the Cursed Charles Manson Autograph

Rick Moody on the Case of the Cursed Charles Manson Autograph

A Very Unlucky Postcard

By Rick Moody | August 8, 2019

On the Great Infertility Scare of the 1980s

On the Great Infertility Scare of the 1980s

Turns Out It Was Actually a Fear of Empowered Women

By Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner | August 8, 2019

When Plastic Grew on Trees

When Plastic Grew on Trees

Is It Ivory? Is it a Nut? It's Tagua.

By Edward Posnett | August 8, 2019

The Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald <br>Never Wrote

The Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never Wrote

A Romantic Drama Against the Backdrop of History

By Anne Margaret Daniel | August 7, 2019

InterLibrary Loan Will<br> Change Your Life

InterLibrary Loan Will
Change Your Life

Nick Ripatrazone Offers a Brief History (and Celebration) of
the Apex of Human Civilization

By Nick Ripatrazone | August 7, 2019

The Painter's Wife vs. The Poet's Husband: Portrait of a Marriage

The Painter's Wife vs. The Poet's Husband: Portrait of a Marriage

Shawna Lemay on the Indistinct Line Between Background and Foreground

By Shawna Lemay | August 6, 2019

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What I Teach: Seven Titles From a High School Class on Trauma Literature

By Kate McQuade | August 6, 2019

How the Long Persecution
of the Rhineland Jews Shaped Karl Marx

By Shlomo Avineri | August 6, 2019

Failed Utopias: Can You Buy an Immaculate World With Dirty Money?

By Caite Dolan-Leach | August 6, 2019

What Contraception Meant to a Century of Women Writers

What Contraception Meant to a Century of Women Writers

Julie Philips on Reproductive Justice and the Great 20th-Century Mother-Writers

By Julie Phillips | August 5, 2019

Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of 'Barbaric'

Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of 'Barbaric'

On the 'Monstrous Development of Technology'

By Walter Benjamin | August 2, 2019

The Life of Afong Moy, the First Chinese Woman in America

The Life of Afong Moy, the First Chinese Woman in America

Contending with the Orientalist Fears and Fantasies of a Young Nation

By Nancy E. Davis | August 2, 2019

On Svetlana Alexievich: What Can a Book Do in the Face of War?

On Svetlana Alexievich: What Can a Book Do in the Face of War?

Rachel Seiffert Considers Last Witnesses

By Rachel Seiffert | August 1, 2019

127 years after his death, letters of love and angst still come to Rimbaud's grave.

127 years after his death, letters of love and angst still come to Rimbaud's grave.

By Aaron Robertson | July 31, 2019

Never Again What? On the Hard Questions Primo Levi's Still Asking

Never Again What? On the Hard Questions Primo Levi's Still Asking

The Necessity of Revisiting His Classic If This Is a Man

By Giacomo Lichtner | July 31, 2019

Finding Photos of My Grandfather in a Japanese Internment Camp

Finding Photos of My Grandfather in a Japanese Internment Camp

Brandon Shimoda on Seeking Ancestral Connections Through Remnants on the Wall at Fort Missoula

By Brandon Shimoda | July 30, 2019

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