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    Biography

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    Op-Ed

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    The Forgotten Father of Romantic Environmentalism

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    Elie Wiesel on the Problem with Tolerance

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    Jose Antonio Vargas: Appearing Undocumented on Fox News

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    How Horror Changed After WWI

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    The Warming Earth is Waking Up Dormant—and Deadly—Diseases

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    Creating a New Tradition of Latin American Horror

    By Mariana Enriquez  October 31, 2018
    Events

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    By Richard Jeffrey Newman  October 31, 2018
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    Photojournalist Lynsey Addario’s Letters Home from Iraq

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    Hunter S. Thompson, James Salter, and a Drunken Trip to Kentucky

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    Searching for Graham Greene’s Havana

    By Sarah Rainsford  October 29, 2018
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    The Thin Line Between Liberalism and Totalitarianism

    By Helena Rosenblatt  October 29, 2018
    Essay

    The Souls of Latarian Milton

    By Donald Quist  October 29, 2018
    Awards

    Meet National Book Award Finalists M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

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    Meet National Book Award Finalist Elizabeth Acevedo

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    Art

    The Painting That Took 22 Years to Finish

    By Joshua Rivkin  October 26, 2018
    Excerpts

    City Lights’ Elaine Katzenberger Has Seen It All in San Francisco

    By Cary McClelland and Elaine Katzenberger  October 26, 2018
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