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On the Evolution of the World’s Oldest Encyclopedia

On the Evolution of the World’s Oldest Encyclopedia

Simon Garfield Considers the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Then and Now

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How Karl Lagerfeld Learned to Love Literature

How Karl Lagerfeld Learned to Love Literature

William Middleton on the Figures Who Nurtured the Intellectual Development of a Fashion Icon

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March’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

March’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

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A Piece of Whalebone, a Butcher’s Shop, a Tailor: The Makings of A Pioneer Abortionist

A Piece of Whalebone, a Butcher’s Shop, a Tailor: The Makings of A Pioneer Abortionist

Jennifer Wright on Madame Restell’s Curiously Skilled Abortions

By Jennifer Wright | March 1, 2023

Can Friendship Transcend Death? On Missing Your Best Friend

Can Friendship Transcend Death? On Missing Your Best Friend

Christie Tate on the Friend Who Taught Her “How One Life Can Alter Another”

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The best and worst reasons to be an English major.

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Reading Ron DeSantis’s dull ChatBot prose for the MAGA speak it really is.

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Exclusive cover reveal: See the cover for Athena Dixon's <em>The Loneliness Files</em>.

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Pinning Down the Cagey Emotions of Poet Amy Clampitt

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Willard Spiegelman on the Mysteries of Biography in the Poetic Realm

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When Rebellion Becomes Virtue: How the Scientific Method Came to Be

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Carlo Rovelli on the Ancient Origins of Modern Inquiry

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Donal Ryan on Mourning the Death of an Unpublishable Novel

Donal Ryan on Mourning the Death of an Unpublishable Novel

“This was my art but it really only benefited me, and I couldn’t expect anyone to invest in it or to pay for it.”

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Kelly Yang on Roald Dahl, Ron De Santis and the New Culture Wars Over Kids’ Books

Kelly Yang on Roald Dahl, Ron De Santis and the New Culture Wars Over Kids’ Books

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 28, 2023

Spectacular Pseudoscience: The Fall and Rise of Bioelectricity

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Sally Adee on the Origins of Frankenstein and the Dark Ethics of Electroshock Technology

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