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In the Woods: Telling the Finnish-American Immigrant Story

In the Woods: Telling the Finnish-American Immigrant Story

Karl Marlantes on the Hardworking Lives of His Ancestors

By Karl Marlantes | July 23, 2019

Ronald Reagan Presided Over 89,343 Deaths to AIDS and Did Nothing

Ronald Reagan Presided Over 89,343 Deaths to AIDS and Did Nothing

Walt Odets on the First Years of the AIDS Epidemic and the Stigmatization of Gay Men

By Walt Odets | July 22, 2019

Gaze Upon These Heroic (and Very Good) Space Dogs!

Gaze Upon These Heroic (and Very Good) Space Dogs!

The Soviet Space Dogs Who Boldly Went Where They Were Told to Go

By Martin Parr | July 19, 2019

What If We Got Stuck on the Moon?

What If We Got Stuck on the Moon?

On the Anxiety of Having Only One Chance to Get Home to Earth

By Harry Hurt III | July 19, 2019

On the Human Spaceflight Program That Made Apollo Possible

On the Human Spaceflight Program That Made Apollo Possible

Gemini: Fine-Tuning the Techniques to Send People to the Moon

By James Donovan | July 19, 2019

11 Legendary Literary Parties We're Sad to Have Missed

11 Legendary Literary Parties We're Sad to Have Missed

Booze, Books, and Oh Yes, Bad Behavior

By Emily Temple | July 18, 2019

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The world's oldest surviving letter by an actual Christian contains a request for fish sauce.

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What Hemingway Cut From For Whom the Bell Tolls

By Seán Hemingway | July 16, 2019

Brazil's History Is Ahead of It, Not Behind

By Geovani Martins | July 16, 2019

Why a 1980s Novel of Dystopian Patriarchy Still Speaks to Women Today

Why a 1980s Novel of Dystopian Patriarchy Still Speaks to Women Today

Leni Zumas on a New Edition of Suzette Haden Elgin's The Judas Rose

By Leni Zumas | July 15, 2019

On the Brides of Jamestown: Old World Puritanism Weaponized for the New World

On the Brides of Jamestown: Old World Puritanism Weaponized for the New World

The Relentless Campaign Against Unmarried Women

By Jennifer Potter | July 12, 2019

We Need a New American Holiday Commemorating the 14th Amendment

We Need a New American Holiday Commemorating the 14th Amendment

Anthony McCann on the Constitutional Confusion of the So-Called American Patriot Movement

By Anthony McCann | July 9, 2019

Spurned in Love, Edith Wharton Turned to Poetry

Spurned in Love, Edith Wharton Turned to Poetry

Irene Goldman-Price on Wharton's Little-Known Book of Poems on Love, Loss, and Regret

By Irene Goldman-Price | July 9, 2019

Nadifa Mohamed and Aleksandar Hemon: What It Means to Be Displaced

Nadifa Mohamed and Aleksandar Hemon: What It Means to Be Displaced

On Community, Violence, and Telling Stories of Trauma

By Literary Hub | July 1, 2019

In Cairo, the Garbage Collector Knows Everything

In Cairo, the Garbage Collector Knows Everything

Peter Hessler on the Lives of a Neighborhood, Seen Through the Trash

By Peter Hessler | July 1, 2019

We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell's <em>1984</em>

We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell's 1984

Dorian Lynskey on How the Message of a Book Can Change Radically Over Time

By Dorian Lynskey | June 27, 2019

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