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Amy Stewart Talks to Jianming (Jimmy) Shen, the Ginkgo Chronicler of Hangzhou

By Amy Stewart | July 17, 2024

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

How Judy Blume’s Deenie Helped Destigmatize Masturbation

Rachelle Bergstein on Self-Pleasure and Sex Education in Children's Literature

By Rachelle Bergstein | July 16, 2024

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

By Justin St. Germain | July 15, 2024

How the Continual Movement of Wildlife Regulates the Natural World

How the Continual Movement of Wildlife Regulates the Natural World

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

By James Bradley | July 15, 2024

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

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

American Howard Norman on Finding His Literary Home in the Canadian Maritimes

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They paved Pemberley and put up a parking lot.

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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Blood-Soaked Handkerchiefs and Burnt Dresses: The Lizzie Borden Trial, as Told in a Newspaper of the Time

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Teenage Queen: Behind the Scenes on the Set of <em>My Lady Jane</em>

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Alexis Gunderson on Bringing the Little Told Story of Lady Jane Grey to the Screen

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On the Time Benjamin Franklin, American Show-Off, Jumped Naked Into the Thames

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Vicki Valosik on Our Millennia Long Love-Hate Relationship With Getting in the Water

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How a Small Press Poetry Contest Launched Samuel Beckett’s Career

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Adam Smyth on Nancy Cunard, the Woman Who First Discovered the Future Nobel Laureate

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Generation Franchise: <br>Why Writers Are Forced to Become Brands (and Why That’s Bad)

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Jess Row on the Ubiquity of the Digital Persona, From Child Stars to Disney Adults

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How Charles Darwin Became a 19th-Century Scientific Rock Star

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Howard Markel on the Debate That Forever Transformed Our Understanding of the Natural World

By Howard Markel | June 25, 2024

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