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    In Praise of the Greatest Book About Swimming Ever Written

    By Daniel Shailer  July 11, 2022
    Keen On

    Ed Yong on How Animals Help Humans Develop Empathy

    By Keen On  July 11, 2022
    Craft

    On the Personalization of Craft; Or, We’re All Going to Die Soon Anyway

    By Diksha Basu  July 11, 2022
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    Why Telling Effective Stories About the Environment Requires More Than Just Words

    By Keen On  July 11, 2022
    On Poetry

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    By Dan O'Brien  July 11, 2022
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    Why America’s War on Schools is the Result of Fifty Years of Failed Federal Educational “Reforms”

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    Executing Funny in Memoir with One of the Most Celebrated Cartoonists of Our Time

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    Democracy

    Why More Single Women Should Run for Office

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    First As Tragedy Then As Farce: How the Soviet and American Invasions of Afghanistan Are Comparable

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    Daniel Silva on How to Write a Bestselling Literary Spy Novel Every Year

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    Apparently, those who read literary fiction—but not other kinds—have a more “complex worldview.”

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    Who is Fire Island for? On the Currency of Reading (and Six Packs) in Pines Society

    By Jack Parlett  July 8, 2022
    Libraries

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    The End of Donald Trump, Green Tech, Apocalyptic Zombies: Should Americans Be Cheerful About the Future?

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    Summer reading

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    Memoir

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    Childhood

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