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The 13 Best Book Covers of August

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Lightsey Darst on the Eternal, Fleeting Moments of New Motherhood

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Keith Houston on the People, Technology, and Equations Behind a Modern Mathematical Convenience

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

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

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Bruce Dorsey on America's First True Crime Phenomenon

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Remembering William Stafford, Whose Poetic Region Was All the World

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