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Discovering Franz Kafka’s Nearly-Lost Drawings

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Marie Myung-Ok Lee on the Challenge of Writing Satire in Present-Day America

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The Author of The Evening Hero in Conversation with Jane Ciabattari

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The Myth of the Rapid Mobility of European Immigrants

The Myth of the Rapid Mobility of European Immigrants

Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on the Data Illusion of the Rags-to-Riches Stories

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Between Fact and Fable: Historical Fiction or Nonfictional Novel?

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Clayton Wickham on the Imagined Histories of Danielle Dutton and Benjamin Labatut

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What’s In a Name? Tracing an Obsession with the Shakespeare Authorship Question

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