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How George Eliot Became a Social Outcast at the Height of Her Fame

How George Eliot Became a Social Outcast at the Height of Her Fame

On Her Final novel, Daniel Deronda

By Norman Lebrecht | November 22, 2019

A Festival of Destruction in One of the Oldest Cities in the World

A Festival of Destruction in One of the Oldest Cities in the World

Michael Cunningham Travels to the Southern Italian City of Matera

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Inside the Republican Party's Last-Ditch Scramble to Save Their House Majority

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By Anne Nelson | November 7, 2019

The Astro Poets: A Field Guide to Scorpios

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Behold the Zodiac Sign That Thrives Outside the Limelight

By Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky | October 29, 2019

How a Saint Gets Made

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Sonja Livingston on the Complicated History of Canonization

By Sonja Livingston | September 26, 2019

On Gandhi and Nonviolence as a Spiritual Virtue

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How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

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

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