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    History

    Scenes from a Life in 1930s Berlin

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    Not Just a German Word: A Brief History of Schadenfreude

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    The Time Halldor Laxness Was Almost Deported from America

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    What the Stoic Philosophers Knew About Being Free

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    How to Arrange an 1890s-Style Shotgun Wedding

    By Patricia Miller  November 15, 2018
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    On the Complicated Legacy of American Country Music

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    Fragments of John McPhee: On Cary Grant, Ping-Pong, and Earthquakes

    By John McPhee  November 13, 2018
    Biography

    Co-Parenting with Lord Byron, As Weird As It Sounds

    By Miranda Seymour  November 12, 2018
    Archives

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    By Literary Hub  November 9, 2018
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    What a Woman Must Do to Become King

    By Kara Cooney  November 8, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

    By Eric Karpeles  November 7, 2018
    Biography

    How to Sell a Candidate to the Public: Andrew Jackson Edition

    By David and Jeanne Heidler  November 6, 2018
    Excerpts

    English Tourists in Italy Have Been Complaining for 300 Years

    By Ferdinand Addis  November 6, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Horror Changed After WWI

    By W. Scott Poole  October 31, 2018
    Excerpts

    America, Waging Unpopular Wars Right from the Start!

    By Michael Beschloss  October 26, 2018
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    On the Very Scary Rise of the First Literary Vampire

    By Nick Groom  October 25, 2018
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    The Moment When Punk Collided With Poetry

    By Kembrew McLeod  October 19, 2018
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    The Anxiety of the Pilot Upon Attempting to Land a Plane

    By María Sonia Cristoff  October 19, 2018
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