A super-rare first folio fragment of Shakespeare’s <em>Henry IV</em> is up for auction.

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Julia Elliott and DaMaris B. Hill on Writing Rural America

Julia Elliott and DaMaris B. Hill on Writing Rural America

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

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How Nostalgia Can Hide Dark Political Realities

How Nostalgia Can Hide Dark Political Realities

Andrew Potter Investigates the Nature of Societal Decline

By Andrew Potter | October 21, 2021

Shadow City, Invisible City: Walking Through an Ever-Changing Kabul

Shadow City, Invisible City: Walking Through an Ever-Changing Kabul

Taran Khan on Life in an Uncertain Afghanistan

By Taran Khan | October 21, 2021

What the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us About Innovation

What the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us About Innovation

Armand D’Angour in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 21, 2021

Who will buy the £80,000 watch from James Joyce’s <em>Ulysses</em>?

Who will buy the £80,000 watch from James Joyce’s Ulysses?

By Walker Caplan | October 20, 2021

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How One Unexpected Phone Call Led to the Rescue of the Last Diving Horse in America

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Vanessa Veselka on What the Next American Revolution Might Look Like

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How Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gloria Steinem Fought For Your Right to Get a Beer

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Mallory O’Meara on a Surprising Gender Discrimination Case

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On the Various, Multipurposed Manuscripts of Canterbury Tales

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Mary Wellesley on the Researchers Who Spent 16 Years Discovering the Full Poem

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