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    How Jews Made the Art World Modern

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    Behind the Mic

    Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby, Read by the Author

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    Why We Need to Bring Down Global Birth Rates and Have Fewer Children

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    Abortion

    “Women afraid of dying while / they are trying to find their life.” Poetry of Abortion by Alissa Quart

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    Anthropocene

    The Dust of Ancient Suns: Making Art and Meaning From the Depths of Deep Time

    By David Farrier  May 6, 2022
    Mothers

    When You Learn Your Mother Was a Serious Writer Only After She’s Gone

    By Michael Bourne  May 6, 2022
    Patriarchy

    Lara Bazelon on the Knife’s Edge That Ambitious Women Must Navigate

    By Lara Bazelon  May 6, 2022
    Abortion

    Why Roe v. Wade Was Just the Beginning of a Long Fight

    By Lauren Rankin  May 6, 2022
    Open Source

    Scott Nelson: The War in Ukraine is a War for Wheat and Corn

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    American Presidents

    How Lady Bird Johnson Saw the President Die

    By Julia Sweig  May 6, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Vauhini Vara on Keeping a Long Writing Project Alive

    By Vauhini Vara  May 6, 2022
    The Internet

    How the Threat of Abuse Silences Women Online

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    Mothers

    The Complex Grief of Losing a Mother You Already Mourned

    By Candice Iloh  May 6, 2022
    New York City

    How Zabar’s Grew from a Modest Business to a Culinary Icon

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    Poetry

    Trieste vs. Milan, Poetry vs. Plot: Beppe Severgnini on the Italian Love—And Need—For Poetry

    By Beppe Severgnini  May 6, 2022
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    Can Conservatives Be Funny?

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    The Moral Case for Demilitarizing the Southern Border

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    The Hub

    A bookstore owner’s petition to make Harriet Tubman Day a holiday is at 8,000 signatures.

    By Corinne Segal  May 5, 2022
    Social Media

    How Did James Baldwin Become a 21st-Century Influencer?

    By Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster  May 5, 2022
    Reproductive Rights

    What It Means to Anthologize the Literature of Abortion

    By Literary Hub  May 5, 2022
    Open Form

    Leslie Jamison on the Role of the Graspy Grad Student in Midsommar

    By Open Form  May 5, 2022
    Tarot

    There Is Grace in Patience: On the Writing Lessons of Tarot

    By Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood  May 5, 2022
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    Why We Should Judge All Politicians Through the Prism of Authenticity

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