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    An artist is designing book covers for strangers’ unwritten memoirs—and you can submit your own.

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    Comfort in Quarantine: On Going Deeper Into the Solitude of Books

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    Light the Fire and Fan the Flames: Surviving China’s Cultural Revolution

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    Foraging for Wild Edible Bamboo on Mount Moriyoshi

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    Philosophy

    What is a Philosopher? A Laughingstock, an Absentminded Buffoon?

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    Would Taxing the Rich Protect Democracy?

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    The Education of an Idealist: US Ambassador Samantha Power on Soft Power and Hard Lessons

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    Life Beyond Act One: Why We Need More Stories About Older Women

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    What the fresh hell? Magnum is releasing a Dante-themed ice cream bar.

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    “Nobody saw it as contemporary.” Why Stacey Abrams’s new novel went unpublished for a decade.

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    The Endangered Albatross: Elusive, Beautiful, Ancient

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    Childhood

    Complicated Comfort: Finding Unlikely Escape in the Restoration of a Childhood Dollhouse

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    Bookstores

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    Language

    A Secret Feminist History of the Oxford English Dictionary

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    Reading Lists

    On Exploring Philosophy in Fiction and Autobiography: A Reading List

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    Graphic Memoir

    Saying the Unsaid: How Writing a Graphic Memoir Helped Dispel My Family’s Shame

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