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We Have Always Been Plagued by Literary Scammers

We Have Always Been Plagued by Literary Scammers

Narcissistic, Ego-Driven Editors Promising the World? Yup.

By Nick Ripatrazone | August 13, 2019

A Brief Eerie History of How the Wind Makes Us Crazy

A Brief Eerie History of How the Wind Makes Us Crazy

Lyall Watson on the Ill Effects of Heavy Weather

By Lyall Watson | August 13, 2019

The Intoxicating Other Worlds of the Encyclopedia

The Intoxicating Other Worlds of the Encyclopedia

David Carlin on Absent Fathers and Missing Histories

By David Carlin | August 13, 2019

On the Great Old White Guy Vocal Fry Panic of 2013

On the Great Old White Guy Vocal Fry Panic of 2013

Actually, When We Take Vocal Patterns Seriously, It Tells Us a Lot

By Amanda Montell | August 12, 2019

Why Were the 1970s So... Weird?

Why Were the 1970s So... Weird?

When the Counterculture Optimism Receded, Things Got Ugly

By Erik Davis | August 12, 2019

On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet

On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet

Gwerful Mechain, Author of Classics Like "Poem to the Vagina" and "Poem to the Penis"

By Lauren Cocking | August 9, 2019

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On the Anxiety of Writing Historical Fiction: A User's Manual

By Caitlin Horrocks | August 9, 2019

5 Artists Who Explore Japanese-American Incarceration and Internment

By Brandon Shimoda | August 8, 2019

Rick Moody on the Case of the Cursed Charles Manson Autograph

By Rick Moody | August 8, 2019

On the Great Infertility Scare of the 1980s

On the Great Infertility Scare of the 1980s

Turns Out It Was *Actually* a Fear of Empowered Women

By Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner | August 8, 2019

When Plastic Grew on Trees

When Plastic Grew on Trees

Is It Ivory? Is it a Nut? It's Tagua.

By Edward Posnett | August 8, 2019

The Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald <br>Never Wrote

The Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never Wrote

A Romantic Drama Against the Backdrop of History

By Anne Margaret Daniel | August 7, 2019

InterLibrary Loan Will<br> Change Your Life

InterLibrary Loan Will
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The Painter's Wife vs. The Poet's Husband: Portrait of a Marriage

The Painter's Wife vs. The Poet's Husband: Portrait of a Marriage

Shawna Lemay on the Indistinct Line Between Background and Foreground

By Shawna Lemay | August 6, 2019

What I Teach: Seven Titles From a High School Class on Trauma Literature

What I Teach: Seven Titles From a High School Class on Trauma Literature

Kate McQuade on Yaa Gyasi, Art Spiegelman, Tim O'Brien, and More

By Kate McQuade | August 6, 2019

How the Long Persecution<br> of the Rhineland Jews Shaped Karl Marx

How the Long Persecution
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A Revolutionary Spirit Born of the Crusades and Napoleonic Wars

By Shlomo Avineri | August 6, 2019

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