Lifting the Curse of Luigi da Porto: On the Life and Legacy of a 15th-Century Italian Poet

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Kate Weinberg Finds Literary Inspiration in Romeo and Juliet’s Original Creator

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Slippery, Slimy and Sublime: On Our Fascination with Eels

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Ellen Ruppel Shell Goes Deep on the Cultural Life of the Anguillidae

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Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What <em>The Decameron</em> Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety

Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What The Decameron Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety

Ed Simon Considers the Act of Storytelling as a Means of Preserving Our Humor and Humanity in Tumultuous Times

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10 reasons to love James Baldwin, in honor of his 100th birthday.

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A Century of James Baldwin

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A Feminist Oral History of the 1972 Democratic National Convention

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Clara Bingham Chronicles the Failed Fight to Include Abortion Rights in the Party’s Platform

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Paul Cooper on Economic, Intellectual and Creative Development in the Ancient Near East

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How America’s Sex Education—and Oversexed Culture—Continues to Fail Women

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