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    How World War II Pacifists Laid the Foundation for Future Struggles

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    From Colleen Hoover to New York’s New Wage Transparency Law: The Good News For Women About 2022

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    Should Stanford and Harvard Really Be Naming Fellowships and Academic Chairs in Honor of Nazi War Criminals?

    By Keen On  December 21, 2022
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    How Joe Biden’s “Supply Side Progressivism” Has Actually Made 2022 A Good Economic Year For Most Americans

    By Keen On  December 21, 2022
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    Yes, 2022 Was a “Pivotal” Year in International Politics. Yet We Still Don’t Know How the World Will Dramatically Tilt in 2023.

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    How to Empower Truly Rebellious Entrepreneurs to Do Good in the World

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    The Hub

    Donna Tartt on the books that were important to her while writing The Secret History.

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    Best of 2022

    The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31

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    Poets

    Literary Fanmail: The Letters of Harold Bloom and James Merrill

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    Airports

    How Airports Liberate—and Constrain—Those Who Pass Through Them

    By Rhian Sasseen  December 20, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Rae Meadows on Immersing Herself in the World of Soviet Gymnastics

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 20, 2022
    Fascism

    Reading Ezra Pound in the Neofascist Age of Trump

    By Tom Rea  December 20, 2022
    Medicine

    Martin Dyar on the Intersections of Poetry and Medicine

    By Martin Dyar  December 20, 2022
    Keen On

    How ChatGPT Empowers Consumers and Might Mean the End of (Human) Lawyers

    By Keen On  December 20, 2022
    Beyond the Page

    Aleksandra Crapanzano on Her Dual Passions For Cooking and Writing

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  December 20, 2022
    Keen On

    A Crypto Winter and the Dawn of the AI Age: How Silicon Valley Will Remember 2022

    By Keen On  December 20, 2022
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    Against Nihilism: Why Belief in Anything is Better Than Nothing

    By Keen On  December 20, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    AudioFile Favorites: An Immense World

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    The Hub

    Let the opinions commence: You can now read the whole White Noise screenplay.

    By Eliza Smith  December 19, 2022
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    Charles Dickens partied HARD after finishing A Christmas Carol in just six weeks.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 19, 2022
    What to Watch

    It’s a Wonderful, Weird Life: Writers Recommend Their Favorite Holiday Movies

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  December 19, 2022
    Fashion

    Meet the Nonconformist Designer Who Revolutionized 1960s Fashion

    By Federico Chiara  December 19, 2022
    Queer Characters

    Reclaiming The L Word’s Jenny Schecter as a Writerly Anti-Hero

    By Amy Zimmerman  December 19, 2022
    Rare Books

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    By Emma Smith  December 19, 2022
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