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On the Literature of Cyborgs, Robots, and Other Automata

On the Literature of Cyborgs, Robots, and Other Automata

From Mechanical Ducks to Mythic Metal Giants

By Michael Peck | April 21, 2016

How I Write History: Or, A Window Into My Crazy

How I Write History: Or, A Window Into My Crazy

Neal Bascomb on Quilt-Making, Research, and Structuring Historical Narrative

By Neal Bascomb | April 19, 2016

In Search of the Darkest Cult in American History

In Search of the Darkest Cult in American History

Laura Elizabeth Woollett on Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple

By Laura Elizabeth Woollett | April 15, 2016

Adam Gopnik on the Ur-Gentrification Story of Place des Vosges

Adam Gopnik on the Ur-Gentrification Story of Place des Vosges

“It soon became apparent they were worth more as residences than as manufacturing spaces.”

By Adam Gopnik | April 14, 2016

Why Wasn't Great American Novelist Jane Smiley on the Cover of a Magazine?

Why Wasn't Great American Novelist Jane Smiley on the Cover of a Magazine?

Rumaan Alam on How We Still Judge Women Writers By a Different Standard

By Rumaan Alam | April 11, 2016

Women in Publishing 100 Years Ago: A Historical VIDA Count

Women in Publishing 100 Years Ago: A Historical VIDA Count

Representation and Gender (Im)Balance in 1916

By Rachel McCarthy James | March 31, 2016

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