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    What Writing a Book on India Showed Me About Colonial Myths

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    From Pandemics to Nuclear Power: Why People Why People Take the Risks They Do

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    The Inspiration Behind Sara’s Law Tells Her Story

    By Cori Thomas  May 11, 2022
    Keen On

    How to Identify and Detoxify Jerks at Work

    By Keen On  May 11, 2022
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    Aimee Mullins on Finding a World of Possibilities in Every Problem

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    By Sara B. Franklin  May 10, 2022
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    Jennifer Weiner: How Plus-Size Women Finally—Finally!—Landed on Book Covers

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    Carlo Rovelli on How Literary Greats Find Inspiration in Scientific Rationality

    By Carlo Rovelli  May 10, 2022
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    Revisiting the Infamous Hill Case in an Era of (More) UFO News and Government Secrets

    By Nick Ripatrazone  May 10, 2022
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    Minnie Driver on Walking Out of a (Pervy, Humiliating) Audition

    By Minnie Driver  May 10, 2022
    Chronic Illness

    What Does It Mean to “Look” Ill?

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    The Cosmic Library

    The Unpronounceable Name of God: Concluding a Journey Through the Hebrew Bible

    By The Cosmic Library   May 10, 2022
    The Hub

    Courageous Afghan teenagers help start an underground book club in defiance of Taliban.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 9, 2022
    Forgotten Classics

    Reclaiming Pamela Moore from the Sisterhood of Sad Literary Girls

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    Art

    How Sylvia Sleigh’s Nude Male Portraits Subverted the Muse Narrative

    By Ruth Millington  May 9, 2022
    Artists

    Behind the Scenes at Andy Warhol’s First Big Bash in “Vacant, Vacuous Hollywood”

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    By Keen On  May 9, 2022
    Music history

    Lyrical Black Face: The Truth About “My Old Kentucky Home”

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    Queers at the End of the World

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    By Queers at the End of the World  May 9, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Robin Hemley on Kafka and Writerly Ambition

    By History of Literature  May 9, 2022
    Creative Nonfiction

    Confessions From a Lifetime of Looking

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