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We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell's <em>1984</em>

We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell's 1984

Dorian Lynskey on How the Message of a Book Can Change Radically Over Time

By Dorian Lynskey | June 27, 2019

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand<br> Her Father

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand
Her Father

On the Poetry of a Precocious Nine-Year-Old

By Jacquelyn Ardam | June 26, 2019

The Rocket Scientist Who Had to Elude the FBI Before He Could Escape Earth

The Rocket Scientist Who Had to Elude the FBI Before He Could Escape Earth

Frank Malina's Scientific Dreams Were as Radical as His Politics

By Fraser MacDonald | June 26, 2019

The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

Jack Parlett on the Storied Legacy of a Legendary Long Island Getaway

By Jack Parlett | June 25, 2019

On Being a Woman Who Loves Math

On Being a Woman Who Loves Math

Catherine Chung Finds Inspiration in the Lives of Otherwise Forgotten Mathematicians

By Catherine Chung | June 25, 2019

Massoud Hayoun on What It Means to Identify as Both Jewish and Arab

Massoud Hayoun on What It Means to Identify as Both Jewish and Arab

Untangling the Imperfect Narratives of Religious History

By Massoud Hayoun | June 25, 2019

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On America's Wild West of Dinosaur Fossil Hunting

By Lukas Rieppel | June 24, 2019

What Was Hemingway Doing in Cuba During World War II?

By Andrew Feldman | June 24, 2019

The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont's Fiction

By André Naffis-Sahely | June 21, 2019

Previewing the First Ever LGBTQ+ Rare Books Auction

Previewing the First Ever LGBTQ+ Rare Books Auction

Including Signed First Editions from Walt Whitman, James Baldwin, Radclyffe Hall, and More

By Rebecca Rego Barry | June 20, 2019

"The Stonewall Revolution is Still Happening"

Views of Stonewall from Rita Mae Brown, Cheryl Clarke, Alexis De Veaux,
Max Wolf Valerio, and Adrian Brooks

By Corinne Segal | June 19, 2019

So, Gutenberg Didn’t Actually Invent Printing As We Know It

So, Gutenberg Didn’t Actually Invent Printing As We Know It

On the Unsung Chinese and Korean History of Movable Type

By M. Sophia Newman | June 19, 2019

Why Does a Language Die?

Why Does a Language Die?

On the Slow Demise of Tayap in Papua New Guinea

By Don Kulick | June 18, 2019

On the Intoxicating Power of Forgetting Where You Came From

On the Intoxicating Power of Forgetting Where You Came From

Lewis Hyde Explores the Egoism of Memory and Self-Making

By Lewis Hyde | June 18, 2019

Discovering America's Heavenly Kingdom of Oil

Discovering America's Heavenly Kingdom of Oil

On One Man's Journey Through Christianity and Crude

By Darren Dochuk | June 17, 2019

On the Syrian Border, 2015, After the Story's

On the Syrian Border, 2015, After the Story's "Gone Elsewhere"

Elliot Ackerman Visits a Refugee Camp Near Tel Abyad

By Elliot Ackerman | June 13, 2019

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