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Cheap Writing Surfaces and Medieval Bureaucracy Helped Popularize the Alphabet

Judith Flanders Explains Why the Alphabet Was Used on a Whim

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Czesław Miłosz Confronts the Dark and Immutable Order of the World

Czesław Miłosz Confronts the Dark and Immutable Order of the World

From the Russian Empire to the Republic of Letters 

By Czesław Miłosz | October 21, 2020

How Liberal Idealism Has Failed Modern Diplomacy

How Liberal Idealism Has Failed Modern Diplomacy

From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

By New Books Network | October 21, 2020

Navigating Crisis: On Asian American Solidarity in a Post-Covid America

Navigating Crisis: On Asian American Solidarity in a Post-Covid America

Daniel Tam-Claiborne on Alexander Chee, Jenny Zhang, and Writing Difference Through Dialogue

By Daniel Tam-Claiborne | October 20, 2020

Why Djuna Barnes Withdrew Into Total Seclusion the Last 40 Years of Her Life

Why Djuna Barnes Withdrew Into Total Seclusion the Last 40 Years of Her Life

From Lit Century: 100 Years, 100 Books, a Podcast Hosted by Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | October 20, 2020

When a Young Malcolm X Addressed a Hartford Housing Project

When a Young Malcolm X Addressed a Hartford Housing Project

Bringin the Nation of Islam's Teachings to a Working-Class Community

By Les Payne and Tamara Payne | October 20, 2020

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What Heidegger's Nazism Means for Modern Philosophy

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James K.A. Smith on the Radical Interconnectedness of Three Rings

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