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    Apocalypses

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    Immortality

    Defeating Death: On the Motivations and Methods of People Who Want to Live Forever

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    The Internet Age

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    One great short story to read today: Sam Rebelein’s “We Never Went Away, We Just Hid Better”

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    The Natural World

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    Artificial Intelligence

    On the Very Real Dangers of the Artificial Intelligence Hype Machine

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    Nature

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    Consumerism

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    Authors are auctioning signed books to raise money for Crips for eSIMs for Gaza.

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    Here are the finalists for the $20,000 DAG Prize for Literature.

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    One great short story to read today: Donald Barthelme’s “A City of Churches”

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    Transphobia

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    Centuries of Sediment: Unearthing a History of Violence, Conquest, and Resistance in Ukraine

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    What If?

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    Antifascism

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    In Conversation

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    The Hub

    Your week in book news, in Venn diagrams.

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    The Trump Administration just fired America’s top librarian.

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    Here’s what to do if your NEA grant has been terminated.

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