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    Explore Wallabout, where Whitman lived while finishing Leaves of Grass.

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    The CIA

    Inside the Quest for Documents That Could Resolve a Cold War Mystery

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    Theater

    The Newly Resonant Lessons of an Unlikely Broadway Musical

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    Life in a Pandemic

    Remember Reading in Public?

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    Um, Phoebe Waller-Bridge is playing Andrew Scott’s dæmon in His Dark Materials.

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    Adaptations

    A stage adaptation of Between the World and Me is coming to HBO.

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    The director of the Philadelphia Free Library resigned over claims of mistreatment of Black staff.

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    Jane Austen

    On Jane Austen’s Politics of Walking

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    American Presidents

    Was Jefferson a Hero or Villain?
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    Learning to Decipher My Father’s Past in Nazi Germany

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    Poetry

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    Elisabeth Moss’ latest literary project: an adaptation of Lauren Beukes’ The Shining Girls.

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    Free Speech

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    Seattle’s new hockey team is called the Kraken (which is a literary character?)

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    Michael Cohen will be released and allowed to finish his memoir from home confinement.

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