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When War Destroyed My Grandmother's Grave

When War Destroyed My Grandmother's Grave

In Iraq, War Comes with Various Names

By Dunya Mikhail | April 19, 2018

When Kathy Acker Interviewed the Spice Girls

When Kathy Acker Interviewed the Spice Girls

"Money makes the world what it is today . . . a world infested with evil."

By Emily Temple | April 18, 2018

On James Baldwin's Radical Writing for <em>Playboy</em> Magazine

On James Baldwin's Radical Writing for Playboy Magazine

Masculine Fantasy and the Subversive Possibilities of Androgyny

By Joseph Vogel | April 17, 2018

Your Pocket Guide to 10 Literary Movements

Your Pocket Guide to 10 Literary Movements

Never Again Will You Have Nothing to Say at a Literary Dinner Party

By Emily Temple | April 5, 2018

How Big Sugar Got Rich Off American Cravings

How Big Sugar Got Rich Off American Cravings

James Walvin on the Unholy Trinity of Soft Drinks, Corn Syrup, and Capitalism

By James Walvin | April 5, 2018

When Marguerite Duras Got Kicked Out of the Communist Party

When Marguerite Duras Got Kicked Out of the Communist Party

Perhaps They Accuse Me of Being a Whore Because They Can Find No Other Insult

By Emily Temple | April 4, 2018

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How a Letter from Einstein Saved a Scientist from Nazi Germany

How a Letter from Einstein Saved a Scientist from Nazi Germany

Gerald Weissmann on the Nativist US Immigration Policies of the 1930s

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Battling American Obfuscation as a Young Black Reporter in Vietnam

Battling American Obfuscation as a Young Black Reporter in Vietnam

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Did Thoreau Actually Live on Walden Pond?

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Networks: Another Thing Silicon Valley Didn't Actually Invent

Andrew Keen in Conversation with Niall Ferguson

By Andrew Keen | March 9, 2018

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