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    Gardening

    How to Plant a Garden Like Emily Dickinson’s

    By Marta McDowell  October 29, 2019
    Architecture

    Ken Follett on the Restoration of Notre Dame After the French Revolution

    By Ken Follett  October 29, 2019
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    The Cultural Encyclopedia of Mushrooms That We Need Right Now

    By Lawrence Millman and Amy Jean Porter  October 29, 2019
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    The Astro Poets: A Field Guide to Scorpios

    By Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky  October 29, 2019
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    Why Thousands Are Protesting in the Streets of Chile

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    The Hub

    Elena Ferrante’s first novel in 5 years has an English-language pub date.

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    The Impassable Divides of the Prison Visiting Room

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    Libraries

    The Strangest Questions Ever Asked of New York City Librarians

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    How to Resist Late-Stage Capitalism—and Other Lessons From Charlotte’s Web

    By Erin Wisti  October 28, 2019
    Humor

    John Hodgman: The Time Everyone Said I Looked Like Hitler

    By John Hodgman  October 28, 2019
    Philosophy

    What Would a World With Less Work Look Like?

    By Charlie Tyson  October 28, 2019
    Art History

    In Pursuit of the Elusive Spanish Forger

    By Lydia Pyne  October 28, 2019
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    If You Think There’s a Lot of Trash on Earth, Just Go to Outer Space

    By Alice Gorman  October 28, 2019
    Bookstores and Libraries

    This Mexico City Artist Created an Instagram-Based Library

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    Val Kilmer is releasing a memoir (!!!)

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    Magical Beings

    How Mermaid Stories Illustrate Complex Truths About
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    By Cristina Bacchilega  October 25, 2019
    Art History

    On Discovering a Multimillion-Dollar Trove of Hitler’s Looted Art in a Munich Apartment

    By Mary M. Lane  October 25, 2019
    Great Depression

    Howard Zinn: How FDR Forestalled a Second American Revolution

    By Howard Zinn  October 25, 2019
    Travel

    Pilgrims, Priests, and Breaking Bread in an Alpine Monastery

    By Timothy Egan  October 25, 2019
    War

    The “Hidden Armies” of Britain That Battled the Nazis

    By Olivier Wieviorka  October 25, 2019
    In Conversation

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