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Robert Downey Jr. is writing a book on climate change that his publisher promises is “fun.”

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An Ode to the French Teacher Who Taught Me to Inhabit the Language

An Ode to the French Teacher Who Taught Me to Inhabit the Language

Grant Ginder on Getting Linguistic and Life Lessons from a “Very” French Woman

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The Fugitive Who Conned His Way Into the Footsteps of Alexander the Great—and the Quest for His Lost Cities

The Fugitive Who Conned His Way Into the Footsteps of Alexander the Great—and the Quest for His Lost Cities

Edmund Richardson on One Man’s Search for a Lost City

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Chloé Cooper Jones on Writing About Disability and Engaging With Beauty

Chloé Cooper Jones on Writing About Disability and Engaging With Beauty

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The Unique Challenge of Designing a Book by Incarcerated Writers

The Unique Challenge of Designing a Book by Incarcerated Writers

Caits Meissner and Melissa Joskow on The Sentences that Create Us

By Caits Meissner and Melissa Joskow | April 5, 2022

Good Enough: Chelsea Bieker on Grieving Her Complicated Father

Good Enough: Chelsea Bieker on Grieving Her Complicated Father

“I didn’t outwardly believe that my success in life would wake my father from his addiction, but my subconscious must have.”

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Finding Utopias Where We Can: On Hopeful Living as Resistance

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On Surviving a Childhood Marked by Civil War

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Meeting Climate Panic with Stories of Agency

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How to Fix the Future of Our Intangible Economy

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Jonathan Haskel in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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Jori Lewis on the Wisdom and Resiliency of Africa’s Baobab Trees

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How the Looting of Public Goods Is Destroying American Democracy

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