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    Reckonings

    How Two Versions of a Family Story Sparked a Writer’s Quest for Truth

    By Grace Elizabeth Hale  November 8, 2023
    Geology

    Magical and Essential: On the Mineral and Metallic Bases of Our World

    By Ed Conway  November 8, 2023
    Climate Fiction

    Counter History: Nine Retellings and Reinventions of Noah’s Ark

    By Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates  November 8, 2023
    Keen On

    Daniel Finkelstein on How His Family Survived Both Hitler and Stalin

    By Keen On  November 8, 2023
    Keen On

    David J. Helfand on Piecing Together the Past With Atomic Science

    By Keen On  November 8, 2023
    In Conversation

    Meet the 2023 National Book Award Finalists

    By Emily Temple  November 8, 2023
    Photography

    What It’s Like Inside Court With Donald Trump

    By Rachel Cobb  November 7, 2023
    Interview

    Stephanie Land on the Routine That Helped Her Write Her New Book in a Month

    By Stephanie Land  November 7, 2023
    Community

    Whose Community Is It Anyway?

    By Casey Plett  November 7, 2023
    Keen On

    Ed Conway on the Global Extractive Economy

    By Keen On  November 7, 2023
    The Hub

    Rupi Kaur has declined an invitation from the White House.

    By Dan Sheehan  November 6, 2023
    Jane Austen

    How American Critics Originated Jane Austen Scholarship

    By Juliette Wells  November 6, 2023
    Family History

    In Search of Hidden Family History in the Late Ottoman Empire

    By Alice Sparberg Alexiou  November 6, 2023
    Animals

    What the Marabou Stork Taught Me About Writing in an Era of Mass Extinction and Waste

    By Ashia Ajani  November 6, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    On Art, Music and the Humanist Spirit in the Face of Nazi Atrocities

    By Jeremy Eichler  November 6, 2023
    World War II

    The Lifesaving Potential of Latin American Passports in the Warsaw Ghetto

    By Roger Moorhouse  November 6, 2023
    Keen On

    Lisa M. P. Munoz on the Gender Gap in Science

    By Keen On  November 6, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Hear a New Short Story from Laia Jufresa

    By Emergence Magazine  November 6, 2023
    Antifascism

    Laughing At Evil: When Charlie Chaplin Brought Hitler to the Big Screen

    By Scott Eyman  November 3, 2023
    Hollywood

    How 1950s Hollywood Tried (and Failed) to Make Literary Adaptations Big

    By Foster Hirsch  November 3, 2023
    Long Lost Writers

    Everything You Need to Know About Groundbreaking Queer Feminist Science Fiction Writer Joanna Russ

    By Jon Michaud  November 3, 2023
    Photography

    Capturing Process and Industry in America: On the Photography of Christopher Payne

    By Kathy Ryan  November 3, 2023
    What to Watch

    We Almost Got a Superhero Movie from The Exorcist Director William Friedkin

    By Paul Morton  November 3, 2023
    Open Letter

    Now is a Time to Speak:
    An Open Letter to the 92nd Street Y

    By Literary Hub  November 3, 2023
    The Hub

    In a new Joan Didion biopic, “an AI Joan encounters a dystopia beyond her wildest anxiety dreams.”

    By Emily Temple  November 2, 2023
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