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

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

Jenni Nuttall Considers the Earliest Written References to Menstruation

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Bruce Dorsey on America's First True Crime Phenomenon

Bruce Dorsey on America's First True Crime Phenomenon

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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Remembering William Stafford, Whose Poetic Region Was All the World

Remembering William Stafford, Whose Poetic Region Was All the World

Steve Paul on the Enduring Memory of One of America's Greatest Contemporary Poets

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How Our Kidneys Keep Us Healthy—And What It Means When They Fail

How Our Kidneys Keep Us Healthy—And What It Means When They Fail

Tom Mueller on the History of Dialysis and the Monetization of Prolonging Life

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Good Writing in a Bad Place: How One Incarcerated Writer Feeds His Craft

Good Writing in a Bad Place: How One Incarcerated Writer Feeds His Craft

From Sullivan Correctional Facility, Robert Lee Williams Muses on Access to Literature

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Christina Lamb on the Widespread Practice of Sexual Violence During Wartime

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