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    Cities

    On Finding Archipelagos of Beauty in the Eternal City

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    But That's Another Story

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    The Hub

    Did you know Marianne Moore and Muhammad Ali wrote a poem together?

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    Remembering Russell Chatham, landscape painter and writer.

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    Idaho coward attempts censorship by hiding books in the public library—but one writer strikes back.

    By Katie Yee  November 15, 2019
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    Gary Oldman loves acting in literary adaptations.

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    Sebastian Junger, David Chang, Matt Bell & more: the week in book deals.

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    Cities

    Between Pastureland and Progress:
    On the Many Lives of an American City

    By Sarah Wagner  November 15, 2019
    Tyranny

    Holding the Line Between Democracy and Tyranny: Anonymous Sources

    By John Freeman  November 15, 2019
    Culture

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    By Olivia Snaije  November 15, 2019
    Oddities

    The Sad, Grotesque Life of “Baboon Lady” Julia Pastrana

    By John Woolf  November 15, 2019
    Witches

    In Order to Write, I Had to Break a Family Curse

    By Amanda Yates Garcia  November 15, 2019
    Grief

    Our Experience of Grief is Unique as a Fingerprint

    By David Kessler  November 15, 2019
    New Books Network

    Rebecca F. Kuang on Violence, History, and Writing a Female Warrior

    By New Books Network  November 15, 2019
    Awards

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    The Hub

    Why Donald Trump Jr.’s bestselling book has a dagger beside it. Yes, a dagger.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 14, 2019
    Public Intellectuals

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    By Philippe Lançon  November 14, 2019
    True Crime

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    By Philip Metres  November 14, 2019
    TV

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    Childhood

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    Philosophy

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