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    Neither Heroines Nor Villains: The Brave-Hearted Women Who Settled the American West

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    A History of the Sassoons—One of the World’s Great Global Merchant Families

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    Turns out there’s an actual Frankenstein Castle in Germany—complete with legendary mad scientist.

    By Emily Temple  October 25, 2022
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    What you should read next, based on your favorite Midnights song.

    By Katie Yee  October 25, 2022
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    Japanese bookstores are closing at a much faster rate than here in America.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 25, 2022
    Twitterverse

    Merve Emre: Why Going Viral on Twitter Makes You Non-Human in the Public Sphere

    By Twitterverse   October 25, 2022
    Dance

    How Martha Graham Was Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky

    By Neil Baldwin  October 25, 2022
    Geniuses

    Gray Area for Gray Matter: On the Time Einstein’s Brain was Stolen

    By Kathryn and Ross Petras  October 25, 2022
    The Writing Life

    The Pains and Pleasures of Taking Decades to Write a Book

    By Devoney Looser  October 25, 2022
    Indigenous History

    How the Supreme Court Failed to Stop the Brutal Relocation of Indigenous American Nations

    By Joel Richard Paul  October 25, 2022
    Biology

    How Humans Came To Discover the Unseen World of Cells

    By Siddhartha Mukherjee  October 25, 2022
    Murder

    The Manhattan Well Mystery: On America’s First Media Circus Around a Murder Case

    By Sam Roberts  October 25, 2022
    Addiction

    Seeking a New Story: On Sobriety and the Stories We Tell About Ourselves

    By Sara Martin  October 25, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Andrew Bomback on Starting with Memoir and Ending with Cultural History

    By I'm a Writer But   October 25, 2022
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    Bad Jews: On the Politics of American Jewish Identity

    By Keen On  October 25, 2022
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    How the Destruction of Roe v. Wade Undermines Fundamental American Rights

    By Keen On  October 25, 2022
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    When 007 Was a Woman: A WWII Novel About the Real Miss Moneypenny

    By Keen On  October 25, 2022
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    How a Husband-and-Wife Have Strengthened Their Bond by Writing Psychological Thrillers

    By Keen On  October 25, 2022
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    The Soviet Union Might Be Dead, But the Consequences of Its Disastrous Collapse Continue to Haunt Us

    By Keen On  October 25, 2022
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    Why American Teachers’ Unions Are So Powerful

    By Keen On  October 25, 2022
    The Hub

    Khadija Abdalla Bajabar has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

    By Corinne Segal  October 24, 2022
    Parenting

    Sweet Yet Sinister: How the Stroller Embodies Parental Hopes and Fears

    By Amanda Parrish Morgan  October 24, 2022
    Insurrections

    How Republicans Weaponized Lies to Incite Their Followers

    By Robert Draper  October 24, 2022
    Folklore

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