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Why Is It So Hard to Write About Music in Fiction?

Why Is It So Hard to Write About Music in Fiction?

Anne Valente Would Rather Just Make You a Playlist

By Anne Valente | May 13, 2019

How Do the Police in New York City Deal With Animal Cruelty?

How Do the Police in New York City Deal With Animal Cruelty?

On the NYPD's Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad

By Aysha Akhtar, M.D. | May 13, 2019

Climbing Mountains for the Right to Vote

Climbing Mountains for the Right to Vote

On the 1909 National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in Seattle

By Susan Ware | May 13, 2019

A Brief History of Queer Language Before Queer Identity

A Brief History of Queer Language Before Queer Identity

"Shade Comes From Reading. Reading Came First." –Dorian Corey

By Jeanna Kadlec | May 13, 2019

Author Photos: A Taxonomy

Author Photos: A Taxonomy

What to Choose: Prominent Hands or the Bend and Clasp?

By Emily Temple | May 10, 2019

Finding My Mother in the Pages of Her Favorite Cookbook

Finding My Mother in the Pages of Her Favorite Cookbook

John McMurtrie on Bridging Generations with a
French Onion Soup Recipe

By John McMurtrie | May 10, 2019

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On the Fine Details of New Life, and the Names We Give

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The Stories Mothers Never Tell

The Stories Mothers Never Tell

A Collaborative Essay by Jill Talbot and Marcia Aldrich

By Jill Talbot and Marcia Aldrich | May 10, 2019

Is It Still Punk When the Musician Makes It Big?

Is It Still Punk When the Musician Makes It Big?

Vivien Goldman on Patti Smith's "Free Money"

By Vivien Goldman | May 9, 2019

The Struggle to Learn Nonviolence in a Violent Place

The Struggle to Learn Nonviolence in a Violent Place

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How the Bubonic Plague <em>Almost</em> Came to America

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A Pompous Doctor, a Racist Bureaucracy, and More!

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Illustrating the Visual Illusions of Walter Benjamin's Mind

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On Wandering Through—and Recreating—a Writer's Marginalia

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A Library for the Ragpickers<br> of Bangalore

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Supporting the Children of the City's Ragpicker Community

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Balancing Power in the Lebanese Borderlands

Balancing Power in the Lebanese Borderlands

Alev Scott at the Edge of a Syrian Refugee Camp in Arsal

By Alev Scott | May 9, 2019

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