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Did J.D. Salinger Wield Copyright as Self-Protection?
"Copyright protections can stop a work from being copied, pirated, poached. They can't stop it from being misunderstood."
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| August 30, 2023
How Obscenity Laws Nearly Stopped Nabokov's
Lolita
from Being Published
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Thomas Harding
| August 29, 2023
Month-Disease, Flewsa, Lunations: On the Etymology of Periods
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Jenni Nuttall
| August 29, 2023
The Greatest Velmas of History and Fiction
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Shaenon K. Garrity
| August 25, 2023
Rape As a Weapon: A Tragedy Both Ancient and Modern
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Christina Lamb
| August 25, 2023
How the Vietnam War Accelerated Generational Divides in America
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| August 24, 2023
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How Ralph Ellison Brought the Complexity of the American Experience to Europe
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| August 21, 2023
How the Banana Came To Be—And How It Could Disappear
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Emily Monosson
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Efforts That Were Wide-Ranging, Sordid, Chaotic, and Dangerous: Matthew Teague on the Indictment in Georgia
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What It Was Like to Design for Barbie
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| August 14, 2023
Who Really Invented the Selfie?
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