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Did You Know That Poetry Used to Be an Actual Olympic Sport?

Did You Know That Poetry Used to Be an Actual Olympic Sport?

And the First Openly Gay Olympic Medalist Was a Poet

By Nick Ripatrazone | July 29, 2024

Cool merch for classic novels.

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By James Folta | July 24, 2024

“Weapons of Health Destruction...” How Colonialism Created the Modern Native American Diet

“Weapons of Health Destruction...” How Colonialism Created the Modern Native American Diet

Andrea Freeman on the Impact of Systematic Oppression on Indigenous Cuisine in the United States

By Andrea Freeman | July 24, 2024

What the <em>Epic of Gilgamesh</em> Reveals About Sumerian Society

What the Epic of Gilgamesh Reveals About Sumerian Society

Paul Cooper on Economic, Intellectual and Creative Development in the Ancient Near East

By Paul Cooper | July 24, 2024

A Better Way to Teach History: On Adapting James Loewen’s “Lies My Teacher Told Me”

A Better Way to Teach History: On Adapting James Loewen’s “Lies My Teacher Told Me”

Nate Powell on Book Bans and the Problem of American “Heroification”

By Nate Powell | July 22, 2024

How America’s Sex Education—and Oversexed Culture—Continues to Fail Women

How America’s Sex Education—and Oversexed Culture—Continues to Fail Women

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In Praise of Ginkgo Biloba, China’s Ancient, Everlasting Tree

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How Judy Blume’s <em>Deenie</em> Helped Destigmatize Masturbation

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What the All-American Delusion of the Polygraph Says About Our Relationship to Fact and Fiction

What the All-American Delusion of the Polygraph Says About Our Relationship to Fact and Fiction

Justin St. Germain Considers the Blurry Borders Between Memory, Memoir and Myth

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How the Continual Movement of Wildlife Regulates the Natural World

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James Bradley on the Integral Role of Migratory Patterns to Human and Environmental Wellbeing

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“I Refused to Be a War Bride.” Or, Why I Set My Novels in Nova Scotia

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They paved Pemberley and put up a parking lot.

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Jan Carson on Capturing the Failures of Northern Ireland in Fiction

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