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    By Lidia Yuknavitch  February 10, 2025
    Gaza

    Invitation to a Die-In: Reflections on the MLA Walk Out for Palestine

    By Hannah Manshel  February 10, 2025
    Nature Writing

    Following Flaco the Owl: In Praise of Writing Into Our Obsessions

    By David Gessner  February 10, 2025
    Cultural History

    How the Advent of Modernity Shifted Our Perception of Mass Violence

    By Bruce Robbins  February 10, 2025
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    Snapshot of a Self: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on Walking the World in a Shifting Body and Gender

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    Angie Cruz has won the 2024 John Dos Passos Prize.

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    Writers in Conversation

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    Artificial Intelligence

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    The Hub

    How librarians saved the day in World War II.

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    Gaza

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    Artificial Intelligence

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    By Surekha Davies  February 6, 2025
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    The Hub

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    The Hub

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