How, Exactly, Did We Come Up with What Counts As 'Normal'?

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The Real Heroes: <br>On HIV/AIDS Activists in 1980s Chicago

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Plunging Into the 1970s' Altered States of Awareness

Plunging Into the 1970s' Altered States of Awareness

Buzz Poole on Erik Davis’s High Weirdness

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Where Have All the Pirates Gone?

Where Have All the Pirates Gone?

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The French Village That Saved Hundreds Fleeing Nazi Persecution

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Maggie Paxson on Refuge and Resistance in WWII

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Roy Jacobsen on the Backbone of Nordic Literature: the Sagas of Iceland

Roy Jacobsen on the Backbone of Nordic Literature: the Sagas of Iceland

Some of Europe's Most Enduring, Complex Literary Works

By Roy Jacobsen | August 14, 2019

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