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    “We’ve Been Hiding Our Buttocks For Too Long.” Josephine Baker Arrives in Paris, 1925

    By Josephine Baker  February 7, 2025
    Remembrances

    “This Will Be Fun.” On the Life and Times of a Comics Master, Jules Feiffer

    By Paul Morton  February 7, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence

    What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves

    By Webb Keane  February 7, 2025
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    How librarians saved the day in World War II.

    By Brittany Allen  February 6, 2025
    Gaza

    For Andreas Malm, the Destruction of Gaza Runs Parallel to the Destruction of the Planet

    By Andreas Malm  February 6, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence

    We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI

    By Surekha Davies  February 6, 2025
    Community

    Carving Our Canoes: On the Value of Building a Communal Life in an Atomized World

    By Tyson Yunkaporta  February 6, 2025
    The Arctic

    How a Norwegian Scientist Used Unconventional Means to Reach the North Pole

    By Neil Shubin  February 6, 2025
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    Libraries are already contending with crappy, AI-generated books.

    By James Folta  February 5, 2025
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    The world of groundhog prognosticators is much weirder—and darker—than you thought.

    By James Folta  February 5, 2025
    Politics

    The Making of an Anti-Woke Zealot: How Elon Musk Was Infected with the MAGA Mind-Virus

    By Eoin Higgins  February 5, 2025
    Harlem Renaissance

    Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem

    By Belinda Edmondson  February 5, 2025
    Happiness

    The Pursuit of Happiness: How Do We Find Purpose and Fulfillment in a Chaotic World?

    By Shigehiro Oishi  February 5, 2025
    Literary Friendships

    A Friendship Across the Color Line: How Shared Southern Roots Brought a Black Writer and a White Editor Together

    By Tess Chakkalakal  February 5, 2025
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    Can you read cursive? Then the National Archives wants YOU.

    By Brittany Allen  February 4, 2025
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    What should the cover of Pride and Prejudice look like?

    By Emily Temple  February 4, 2025
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    Want to win Leonard Cohen’s “magic writing cap?”

    By Brittany Allen  February 4, 2025
    Publishing

    What Publishing Can Do About Trump: Preserve the Independence of Our Bookstores and Libraries

    By Josh Cook  February 4, 2025
    Relationships

    Actually, Master and Commander is a Domestic Fantasy About a Codependent Life Partnership!

    By Olivia Wolfgang-Smith  February 4, 2025
    Mothers and Sons

    Allegra Goodman on the (Almost) Life-Saving Power of Audiobooks

    By Allegra Goodman  February 4, 2025
    Psychology

    How Many Licks? On Tootsie Pops, Desire and the Science of Delayed Gratification

    By Sarah Perry  February 4, 2025
    Bibliophobia

    Love Books? You Still Might Suffer From Bibliophobia

    By Sarah Chihaya  February 4, 2025
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    In a dazzling move, Simon & Schuster is dropping their blurbs requirement.

    By James Folta  February 3, 2025
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    The Giller Prize has (finally) cut ties with Scotiabank.

    By Dan Sheehan  February 3, 2025
    Travel

    All the literary adaptations at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

    By Brittany Allen  February 3, 2025
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