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    Tad Friend and the Art of Long-Form Journalism

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    Mustafa Suleyman on the Coming Wave of Technological Disruption

    By Keen On  September 1, 2023
    Design

    The 13 Best Book Covers of August

    By Emily Temple  August 31, 2023
    Mother-Writers

    What Does It Mean to Write after Having Children?

    By Lightsey Darst  August 31, 2023
    Inventions

    How Complex Math and Human Innovation Created the Calculator

    By Keith Houston  August 31, 2023
    What to Watch

    Beyond Tortured Genius: Science and Conscience in Two Rediscovered Oppenheimer Films

    By Lauren Carroll Harris  August 31, 2023
    Keen On

    Michael G. Long on the Greatness of Bayard Rustin

    By Keen On  August 31, 2023
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    Avi Loeb on Why Aliens (Probably) Don’t Care About Humans

    By Keen On  August 31, 2023
    Social Media

    How Big Tech Helps Promote Disinformation—And How It Can Help Stop It

    By Lee McIntyre  August 30, 2023
    Cosmology

    On the “Inverted Cosmos”—From Aristotle to the Middle Ages

    By William Egginton  August 30, 2023
    Music

    10 Books for Taylor Swift’s 10 Eras

    By Samantha Paige Rosen  August 30, 2023
    Copyright

    Did J.D. Salinger Wield Copyright as Self-Protection?

    By Olivia Rutigliano  August 30, 2023
    Keen On

    Simon Sharpe on Rethinking How We Fight Climate Change

    By Keen On  August 30, 2023
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    Uri Kaufman on the Yom Kippur War

    By Keen On  August 30, 2023
    Literary History

    How Obscenity Laws Nearly Stopped Nabokov’s Lolita from Being Published

    By Thomas Harding  August 29, 2023
    Etymologies

    Month-Disease, Flewsa, Lunations: On the Etymology of Periods

    By Jenni Nuttall  August 29, 2023
    Keen On

    Bruce Dorsey on America’s First True Crime Phenomenon

    By Keen On  August 29, 2023
    American Poetry

    Remembering William Stafford, Whose Poetic Region Was All the World

    By Steve Paul  August 28, 2023
    Medicine

    How Our Kidneys Keep Us Healthy—And What It Means When They Fail

    By Tom Mueller  August 28, 2023
    Incarcerated Writers

    Good Writing in a Bad Place: How One Incarcerated Writer Feeds His Craft

    By Robert Lee Williams  August 28, 2023
    In Conversation

    Miles Franklin Winner Shankari Chandran on Defining Australianness

    By Janet Manley  August 28, 2023
    Keen On

    Anna Funder on the Doublethink of the Patriarchy

    By Keen On  August 28, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Melanie Challenger on Listening to Other Species

    By Emergence Magazine  August 28, 2023
    Keen On

    Katherine Clarke on the Buildings of Billionaires Row

    By Keen On  August 28, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Greatest Velmas of History and Fiction

    By Shaenon K. Garrity  August 25, 2023
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