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On the mysterious obscenity scribbled on John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath manuscript.

Astronomers have determined the exact hour that Mary Shelley thought of Frankenstein.

How the Killing of George Floyd Reflects America's Repeated History of Racism and Police Brutality

On Constancia de la Mora and the Plight of Writers in Exile

Jack Dash and Luke Swenson on Ecologies that Resist Borders

Janine di Giovanni on the End of Christianity in Its Historical Homeland

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Anne-Marie Slaughter on Radical Honesty as a Key to Growth

This year's literary MacArthur fellows on the best writing advice they've received (and more).

The New Weapons of War: Disinformation, Economic Coercion, and Online Disruption

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Joseph Weisberg on Russia and America, the Very Best of Enemies

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