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The Obsessive Scholar Who Rescued Iceland’s Ancient Literary Legacy

The Obsessive Scholar Who Rescued Iceland’s Ancient Literary Legacy

How Arni Magnusson Saved a Country’s Stories

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How Racism and Neglect Fueled the Rise of Gang Life in Denver

How Racism and Neglect Fueled the Rise of Gang Life in Denver

Julian Rubinstein Tells the Story of a Neighborhood

By Julian Rubinstein | May 11, 2021

About all those unproduced screenplays William Faulkner wrote . . .

About all those unproduced screenplays William Faulkner wrote . . .

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Reckoning with the Impact of the Camorra on My Family’s Livelihood

Reckoning with the Impact of the Camorra on My Family’s Livelihood

John Domini on Life Within “The System” in Naples

By John Domini | May 10, 2021

Jonathan Taplin: When Music Was a Vanguard for Political Movements

Jonathan Taplin: When Music Was a Vanguard for Political Movements

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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After the Genocide, How Much Armenian Art Remains?

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The Truth is Out There: On the Wild and Divisive World of Cryptozoology

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Mother-Daughter Duo T. S. Mart and Mel Cabre Consider the History of Mythical Flying Creatures

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On James Baldwin’s Unflinching Exposé of American Greed and Racial Terror

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How US Newspapers Became Utterly Ubiquitous in the 1830s

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Ken Ellingwood on the Social and Political Function of Print Media

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The Women Codebreakers Who Helped Win the War from Bletchley Park

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How Do You Write a Historical Novel About Under-Documented Lives?

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Emily Hourican on Researching Her Novel, The Glorious Guinness Girls

By Emily Hourican | May 5, 2021

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