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    Libraries

    Libraries Are Even More Important to Contemporary Community Than We Thought

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    How Napoleon’s Italian Exile Set the Stage for His Return to Power

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    The Fraught History (and Inevitable Future) of Space Tourism

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    Poetry

    The Yale Younger Poets Prize: A Microcosm of the American Poetry Landscape

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    Reading Across America

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    The Hub

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    2019 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction

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    The Hub

    The 10 new books you should be reading this week.

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    Children's Literature

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    Diarists

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    Music

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