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How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him

How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him

"I regard such things as premature impertinences."

By Emily Temple | March 17, 2020

How America’s Oldest Bookstore Has Survived Across the Centuries

How America’s Oldest Bookstore Has Survived Across the Centuries

Andrew Belonsky on the Moravian Book Shop in Pennsylvania

By Andrew Belonsky | March 16, 2020

Sugar and Sex in the American Imagination

Sugar and Sex in the American Imagination

Monique Truong on Calling a Woman “Sweet”

By Monique Truong | March 16, 2020

What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus's <em>The Plague</em>

What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus's The Plague

Liesl Schillinger on Catastrophe, Contagion, and the Human Condition

By Liesl Schillinger | March 13, 2020

Lessons From the Qur'an as the Bombs Fell on Tehran

Lessons From the Qur'an as the Bombs Fell on Tehran

Alireza Doostdar on Blessing, Punishment, and Witnessing War

By Alireza Doostdar | March 13, 2020

Race and Spectacle in the Circuses of Gilded Age America

Race and Spectacle in the Circuses of Gilded Age America

Jacob Dorman on Circus Orientalism and Racial Othering

By Jacob Dorman | March 12, 2020

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Trump Threatened Iranian Cultural Sites. This Is What They Look Like.

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The Fraught and Risky Business of Spotting a Historical Fake

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How, Exactly, Do Our Brains Construct Reality?

How, Exactly, Do Our Brains Construct Reality?

Will Storr on the Neuroscience Behind the World We See

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On Terminal Pain and the Origins of the End-of-Life Movement

On Terminal Pain and the Origins of the End-of-Life Movement

Gerald Posner on Cicely Saunders, the UK Nurse-Turned-Physician

By Gerald Posner | March 11, 2020

How Dairy Lunchrooms Became Alternatives to the NYC Saloon 'Free Lunch.'

How Dairy Lunchrooms Became Alternatives to the NYC Saloon 'Free Lunch.'

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Why Does This Portuguese City Glorify the Author Who<br> Hated It?

Why Does This Portuguese City Glorify the Author Who
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Inside the Secret Hospitals of the Syrian Civil War

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The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US

The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US

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What's the Point of Plants that Make Us Feel High?

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