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Not Everyone Agreed with Albert Einstein—Including Children, Schrödinger, and Heisenberg

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How Isaac Bashevis Singer Preserved European Jewish Life Through Literature

How Isaac Bashevis Singer Preserved European Jewish Life Through Literature

David Stromberg on the Artistic Vision of the Polish-Born American Nobel Laureate

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Jenny Erpenbeck on Spying, Lying, and Eros

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In Conversation with Ellen Adams in Montréal

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Archival Romance: On Finding Love in the Papers of an Obscure Medieval Poet

Archival Romance: On Finding Love in the Papers of an Obscure Medieval Poet

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1848: Europe's Year of Revolt and Revolution

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Drip Painting Was Actually Invented by a Ukrainian Grandmother... Not Jackson Pollock

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