Dear Tech Evangelists: Have You Tried “Move Slow and Make Things”?

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Dear Bill: Letters From a Young John Updike to His Editor, William Maxwell

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“Yet Famine Was Still Famine.” On the Struggle to Find Food and Clean Water in Gaza

“Yet Famine Was Still Famine.” On the Struggle to Find Food and Clean Water in Gaza

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Five Classic Books Every Basketball Lover Should Read

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How Oscar Wilde finally got his library card back.

How Oscar Wilde finally got his library card back.

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Barf, Funk, Tug, and Other Etymological Mysteries

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Joshua Blackburn Explores the Centuries-Long Evolution of the English Language

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“How Living Are His Portraits of the Dead.” Toni Morrison on the Photography of James Van Der Zee

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