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In Those Years She Was Feral: Midcentury Life in the Soviet Union

In Those Years She Was Feral: Midcentury Life in the Soviet Union

Alex Halberstadt on the Life and Times of His Grandmother Tamara

By Alex Halberstadt | March 18, 2020

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."

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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

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Alireza Doostdar on Blessing, Punishment, and Witnessing War

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The Fraught and Risky Business of Spotting a Historical Fake

The Fraught and Risky Business of Spotting a Historical Fake

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How, Exactly, Do Our Brains Construct Reality?

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

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

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Ben Katchor's Brief History of the Dairy Restaurant

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

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Inside the Secret Hospitals of the Syrian Civil War

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By David Nott | March 6, 2020

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

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

Robin D.G. Kelley on the Predecessors to Antifa

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