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    By Anthony DeCurtis  June 5, 2019
    Queer History

    The Painful, Powerful Legacies of Stonewall in 2019

    By Charles Kaiser  June 5, 2019
    American History

    The Poetic Half-Life of One Family’s Nuclear History

    By Tyler Mills  June 5, 2019
    Wellness

    How Jennifer Pastiloff Makes People Feel Heard

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  June 5, 2019
    The Cartels

    Life on the Margins in a Kingdom of Cartels

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    The Hub

    This bookmobile is driving 1,800 miles from New York to Louisiana.

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    Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 Lambda Literary awards!

    By Dan Sheehan  June 4, 2019
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    Elif Bautman’s The Idiot will be a film and I feel… nervous.

    By Jessie Gaynor  June 4, 2019
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    New Books Tuesday: Your weekly guide to what’s publishing today, fiction and nonfiction

    By Emily Temple  June 4, 2019
    American History

    Jill Lepore on Early American Ideas of Nationalism

    By Jill Lepore  June 4, 2019
    Appreciations

    Deadwood, TV’s Most Literary Show, Gets Its Rightful Foul-Mouthed Send-Off

    By Tyler Malone  June 4, 2019
    Reading Behind Bars

    How Sharing Books with My Dad in Prison Made Life Bearable for Both of Us

    By Tyler Wetherall  June 4, 2019
    Film and TV

    What Makes Somebody a Mother? On the New Season of The Handmaid’s Tale

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  June 4, 2019
    Travel Writing

    The Cold War Love Story of a Would-Be Travel Writer/Almost-Spy

    By Thomas Swick  June 4, 2019
    Walking

    How Do We Reclaim American Cities for People Who Walk?

    By Antonia Malchik  June 4, 2019
    Women's suffrage

    On the Role of Black Women in the Struggle for Suffrage

    By Kate Lemay  June 4, 2019
    The Hub

    Why The Very Hungry Caterpillar almost never happened.

    By Corinne Segal  June 3, 2019
    The Hub

    Of course Lana Del Rey is writing poetry about Sylvia Plath.

    By Emily Temple  June 3, 2019
    Reading Lists

    15 Books You Should Read This June

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    Literary History

    Pablo Neruda’s Life as a Struggling Poet in Sri Lanka

    By Jamie James  June 3, 2019
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    Reflections

    Philippe Petit Meditates on His Life Walking the High Wire

    By Philippe Petit  June 3, 2019
    From the Archive

    New York City in the 1930s, As Seen Through the Lens of Berenice Abbott

    By Berenice Abbott  June 3, 2019
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    Your weekly book deal memo: the Jonas Brothers, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, & more

    By Emily Temple  May 31, 2019
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