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    My Decade of Falling in Love with the Writing of José Esteban Muñoz

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    By Olivia Rutigliano  August 28, 2019
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    14-year-old literary activist Marley Dias on how her generation is fighting for the future.

    By Corinne Segal  August 28, 2019
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    Rachel Cusk’s house is an austere, experimental, hyper-modern masterpiece. (Shocking, right?)

    By Emily Temple  August 28, 2019
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    A robot read 3.5 million books to find we describe women by appearance, and men by virtue.

    By Jonny Diamond  August 28, 2019
    Language

    On the Politics of Italics

    By Jumoke Verissimo  August 28, 2019
    Literary Legends

    Tracking Down My Literary Idol to a San Francisco Commune

    By Philippe Aronson  August 28, 2019
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    The Death of Alexander the Great: One of History’s Great Unsolved Mysteries

    By Anthony Everitt  August 28, 2019
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    Drugs

    The Deafening Silence of a Pharmaceutical Company in the Face of the Opioid Crisis

    By John Halpern and David Blistein  August 28, 2019
    Political Conversation

    Journalist Peter Hessler on Moving to Egypt After the Revolution

    By Dylan Foley  August 28, 2019
    Reading Across America

    A Reading Series That Challenges Calls for ‘Civility’

    By Meher Manda  August 28, 2019
    Democracy

    On the Dangerous Temptations of Political Contempt

    By Michael Patrick Lynch  August 28, 2019
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    Five brilliant young bards honored by the Poetry Foundation.

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    Here is the trailer for Dickinson, a sexy series about young Emily Dickinson.

    By Jessie Gaynor  August 27, 2019
    Reading

    The End-of-Summer Joy of Reading by a Motel Pool

    By Susan Harlan  August 27, 2019
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    Teddy Roosevelt Hated Baseball

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    Reparations

    What Germany Can (and Can’t) Teach America About Reparations and Evil

    By Susan Neiman  August 27, 2019
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    If you have $6.2 million, you can live in Tom Clancy’s 17,178-square-foot estate.

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    Amazon is opening a store across the street from Nashville’s Parnassus Books, because Amazon is bad.

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    Here is a cool statue of Ray Bradbury riding a rocket Dr. Strangelove-style.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 26, 2019
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    Andrew Luck, retiring NFL star and inspiration for one of the all-time great Twitter accounts, is also a book nerd.

    By Jonny Diamond  August 26, 2019
    Artificial Intelligence

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    By Bryan Walsh  August 26, 2019
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