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At Their Own Pace: Why Reading Is Not an Inherent Moral Good

At Their Own Pace: Why Reading Is Not an Inherent Moral Good

Katherine Gaudet on Raising Reluctant Readers

By Katherine Gaudet | September 30, 2020

The Night W.S. Merwin Was Stripped Naked by a Charismatic Buddhist Leader

The Night W.S. Merwin Was Stripped Naked by a Charismatic Buddhist Leader

Emily Temple on a Legendary Night of Very Bad Behavior

By Emily Temple | September 30, 2020

How an Italian Translator Found an Unlikely Home in the Utah Desert

How an Italian Translator Found an Unlikely Home in the Utah Desert

Sara Reggiani on Belonging, Kinship, and Translating Ellen Meloy's Nature Writing

By Sara Reggiani | September 30, 2020

How a Poem Ends Up As a Basketball Epic

How a Poem Ends Up As a Basketball Epic

The Books That Helped Inua Ellams Write The Half-God of Rainfall

By Inua Ellams | September 30, 2020

Bob Davidson on Rising Above Segregation through Persistence and Resistance

Bob Davidson on Rising Above Segregation through Persistence and Resistance

Introducing the ArtCenter College of Design’s Bi-Weekly Podcast

By Change Lab | September 30, 2020

Why Are We Fascinated by Strange Faces?

Why Are We Fascinated by Strange Faces?

Namwali Serpell Considers the "Smiling Disease" Exhibit, the Elephant Man, Michael Jackson, and Cleopatra

By Namwali Serpell | September 29, 2020

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Funeral in Effigy for the Statue of a Klansman Confederate General

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On Wild Salmon, Hockey Dreams and Life in the Saanich Homeland

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The Black Women Who Led the Fight for Decolonization in the French Empire

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On the Liberation Struggles of the <br>Soviet Refuseniks

On the Liberation Struggles of the
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Natan Sharansky Recalls the Global Effort to Get Russian Jews to Israel

By Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy | September 29, 2020

The Racist History and Political Ends of Taking Children

The Racist History and Political Ends of Taking Children

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By New Books Network | September 29, 2020

Why Does Everyone in America Think They’re Middle Class?

Why Does Everyone in America Think They’re Middle Class?

David R. Roediger on the Myth of American Exceptionalism

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Navigating Literary Censorship—and Worse—in Iran

Navigating Literary Censorship—and Worse—in Iran

Amir Ahmadi Arian on Creative Freedom and Sitting at the "Gate of Law"

By Amir Ahmadi Arian | September 28, 2020

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The Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics, September Edition

Chronicles of Europe's Displaced, the War in the Pacific, the Early Years of the CIA, and More

By Book Marks | September 28, 2020

Why Did Renaissance Europeans See Merpeople Everywhere?

Why Did Renaissance Europeans See Merpeople Everywhere?

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<em>Language Keepers</em>: Compiling the First Ever Wukchumni Dictionary

Language Keepers: Compiling the First Ever Wukchumni Dictionary

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