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    Gore Vidal mastered the art of the burn.

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    Searching for Meaning in Times of Despair: A Reading List

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    The Decade From Hell (No, Not This One)

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    Is Ball Four the Greatest Baseball Memoir Ever Written?

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    Willie Perdomo on Poetry as a Decolonial Practice

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    Hilary Mantel celebrates Father’s Day early by naming her new collection Mantel Pieces.

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    Letters Home

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    Police

    On Charles Dickens’ Devious, Hypocritical “Nice Guy” Cop

    By Olivia Rutigliano  June 12, 2020
    Memoir

    How to Grieve the Living: A Conversation with Stephanie Danler

    By Francesca Pellas  June 12, 2020
    Religious Nationalism

    How Fringe Christian Nationalists Made Abortion a Central Political Issue

    By Katherine Stewart  June 12, 2020
    Children's Literature

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    Zadie Smith wrote an entire essay collection in lockdown, and you can read it in July.

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    Take a look at Charles Dickens’s handwritten manuscript of Oliver Twist.

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    Queer Identity

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    Literary History

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