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Trying to Teach English Literature in the Wake of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Trying to Teach English Literature in the Wake of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Kim Echlin on Morality, Mythology, and the Double Life of Totalitarianism

By Kim Echlin | January 15, 2021

On Learning to Speak Dutch and the Art of Doing Nothing

On Learning to Speak Dutch and the Art of Doing Nothing

Olga Mecking Realizes How Hard It is to Literally Do Nothing

By Olga Mecking | January 15, 2021

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Powerful 1960 Letter From<br> Big Rock Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Powerful 1960 Letter From
Big Rock Jail

Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick on the Meaning of Protest,
Justice, and Equality

By Stephen and Paul Kendrick | January 15, 2021

Writing the Human Element Into Climate Change Via Those Most At Risk

Writing the Human Element Into Climate Change Via Those Most At Risk

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Her Debut Novel

By Claire Holroyde | January 15, 2021

Horace Julian Bond Recounts Witnessing the Little Rock Nine from Afar

Horace Julian Bond Recounts Witnessing the Little Rock Nine from Afar

"The Little Rock crisis energized American Black people who watched the drama unfold on television."

By Horace Julian Bond | January 15, 2021

Caitlin Horrocks on Life in Michigan, the Love of Sleep, and Novels vs. Short Stories

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By Jane Ciabattari | January 14, 2021

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On Putting the Most Vulnerable Parts of Yourself on the Page

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By Karl Geary | January 13, 2021

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Richard Greene Charts How a Great Writer Navigated a Period of Destructive Tumult

By Richard Greene | January 13, 2021

On Abraham Lincoln’s Convoluted Plan For the Abolition of Slavery

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James Oakes Charts the Politics Leading Up the American Civil War

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Trouble for Your Thoughts: On Reported Creative Nonfiction

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Kenneth R. Rosen Recommends Nine Books To Better Understand Our Place in the World

By Kenneth R. Rosen | January 13, 2021

Inside Algeria’s Early ‘Kingdom of Wine’

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Owen White Traces the History of the Algerian Vignoble

By Owen White | January 13, 2021

On the Uses of Boredom: Philosophical, Scientific, Literary

On the Uses of Boredom: Philosophical, Scientific, Literary

Martha Cooley Considers the Sociological Significance of Utter Ennui

By Martha Cooley | January 13, 2021

What Joe Biden Can Learn from Machiavelli After the Capitol Raid

What Joe Biden Can Learn from Machiavelli After the Capitol Raid

Alexander Lee Talks to Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | January 13, 2021

On Discovering Zimbabwean Literature as a Zimbabwean Writer

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