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    Why Risk-Taking, Rebellious Immigrants Capture the Spirit of What It Should Mean To Be a 21st-Century “American”

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    How the Metaverse Will Revolutionize Everything and Why That Might Not Be Such a Bad Thing

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    Why We Still Need to Tell the Stories of the Holocaust

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    Cover Reveal: See the cover for Szilvia Molnar’s debut novel, The Nursery.

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    Thresholds

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    Cosmology

    Black Holes: How Order Comes from Chaos in the Cosmos

    By Antonio Padilla  July 27, 2022
    Women in Science

    “She’s making history / working for victory.” The Women Mathematicians Who Joined the War Effort

    By Kathy Kleiman  July 27, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    A Daughter’s Memoir of a Mom Who Passed Down Her Trauma

    By Keen On  July 27, 2022
    World War II

    On Claude Simon’s Classic Nouveau Roman and the Possibilities of Fragmented Narrative

    By Jerry W. Carlson  July 27, 2022
    Indigenous History

    How Colonialism and Patriarchy Create Enduring Misery for Native American Women

    By Sofia Ali-Khan  July 27, 2022
    Elections

    How Pollsters Got the 2016 Election So Wrong, And What They Learned From Their Mistakes

    By G. Elliott Morris  July 27, 2022
    Reading

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    By Phillip Done  July 27, 2022
    Keen On

    How a Pathology of “Schizophrenia” Might Reflect a Broken Society As Much as a Broken Mind

    By Keen On  July 27, 2022
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    Plastics: The One Word That Best Incapsulates Our Global Environmental Crisis

    By Keen On  July 27, 2022
    Otherppl

    Isaac Fitzgerald on Telling His Story Straight Up

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  July 27, 2022
    The Hub

    Aaand, Skyhorse is publishing Blake Bailey’s memoir about cancel culture.

    By Jessie Gaynor  July 26, 2022
    The Hub

    Who would you sit with at this 1972 dinner: Dylan and Vonnegut, or Cheever and Ginsberg?

    By Jonny Diamond  July 26, 2022
    The Hub

    Here’s the 2022 Booker Prize longlist.

    By Corinne Segal  July 26, 2022
    How to Read

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    By Elaine Castillo  July 26, 2022
    Coming of Age

    On the Anguish of Quarterlife: A Literary History

    By Satya Doyle Byock  July 26, 2022
    Grammar

    What Happens When You Offer Grammar Advice to Complete Strangers in the Middle of Manhattan

    By Ellen Jovin  July 26, 2022
    Women Writers

    Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

    By Hilary A. Hallett  July 26, 2022
    Iraq War

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    By Michael R. Gordon  July 26, 2022
    Keen On

    How Cities, Rather Than Big Tech, Should Be the Engine for a More Equitable Digital Future

    By Keen On  July 26, 2022
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