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    Survival of the Wealthiest: Joseph E. Stiglitz on the Dangerous Failures of Neoliberalism

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    How Prohibition Forever Changed Women’s Cultural Relationship with Alcohol

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    When Writing Your Novel (Maybe) Manifests Your Breakup

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    The Creators of a Bicycle-Powered Library Reflect on Its Humble Beginnings

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    Banned Books

    Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author

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    Shakespeare

    Torn Dresses, Frank Sinatra, Ghosts in the Loo: Judi Dench on a Lifetime of Playing Shakespeare

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    On America’s Two-Party System… And the Damage It Has Done

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 23, 2024
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    Sasha Vasilyuk on the Price of Secrecy in Russia and Ukraine

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    What would Spy magazine think of Graydon Carter’s new store?

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    The PEN America Literary Awards have been cancelled.

    By Dan Sheehan  April 22, 2024
    Queer Literature

    Dorothy Allison: “In the Stories We Share and Those We Have Not Yet Crafted—We Live Forever”

    By Dorothy Allison  April 22, 2024
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    “We are Here.” On Rediscovering Safety and Beauty in the Wonders of Nature

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    What Medieval Poets Can Teach Us About Climate Change, and What Evangelicals Today Get Wrong

    By Eleanor Johnson  April 22, 2024
    Fathers and Daughters

    Two Vietnams: Chronicling a Father and Daughter’s Shared Love For the Same Country

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    Best Short Stories 2024

    Announcing the Winners of the 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

    By Jenny Minton Quigley  April 22, 2024
    Read Smart

    Read Smart on Gardens Past and Present

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    Taylor Swift

    “Pale Fire” (Tavi’s Version): Notes on Taylor Swift and the Literature of Obsessive Fandom

    By Leigh Stein  April 19, 2024
    Bookstores

    Paul Yamazaki on the Important, Joyous Work of Running an Independent Bookstore

    By Paul Yamazaki  April 19, 2024
    Revolutionaries

    The Byronic Revolution of Che Guevara

    By Ed Simon  April 19, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    How Much is Enough? On the Writerly Balance Between Money and Time

    By Ryan Chapman  April 19, 2024
    Women in Science

    How Lydia Ernestine Becker Was Once Central to—Then Excluded from—the Study of Botany

    By Erin Zimmerman  April 19, 2024
    Libraries

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