On the Auction Block: Jack Kerouac’s Record-Breaking Manuscripts

On the Auction Block: Jack Kerouac’s Record-Breaking Manuscripts

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Meet the Habsburgs! And Watch Them Marry Their Way Across Europe...

Meet the Habsburgs! And Watch Them Marry Their Way Across Europe...

Veronica Buckley on Revolutionary Europe’s First Family

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How a Single Cup of Tea Can Help Build Community Across the World

How a Single Cup of Tea Can Help Build Community Across the World

Molly Irani: “When we reach across a divide—to listen, to share our common humanity, we remember the glue that binds us.”

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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Hitting the road? Here are three recommendations about trips that get out of hand.

Hitting the road? Here are three recommendations about trips that get out of hand.

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The Town Where The Last Picture Show Was Filmed Absolutely Hated It

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On a Bet, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Invented the Way We Still Identify Plants

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The Origin of Our Species: How Grains and Grasses Fed (and Still Feed) Humankind

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David George Haskell In Praise of a Versatile, Life-Giving Plant

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What Did European Life Look Like at the Dawn of Capitalism?

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Trevor Jackson on the Peasant Society of Early 1500s Europe

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Trailblazer or Panderer? Inside the Life and Career of Black Comedian Stepin Fetchit

Trailblazer or Panderer? Inside the Life and Career of Black Comedian Stepin Fetchit

Geoff Bennett on the Evolving Role of Black Comedy in Hollywood

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The Real Cancel Culture: NYU Has Put an End to Live Student Graduation Speeches

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“The ruling class knows that if you give the smartest person in the room a microphone they’re probably going to say Free Palestine.”

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On the Complexities of Navigating Indigenous Life in a Relentlessly Modern World

On the Complexities of Navigating Indigenous Life in a Relentlessly Modern World

Irina Sadovina on the Important Lessons in Anna Nerkagi’s White Moss

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Why We Still Need Book Festivals

Why We Still Need Book Festivals

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Four Hong Kong booksellers have been arrested for selling “seditious titles.”

Four Hong Kong booksellers have been arrested for selling “seditious titles.”

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