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    When the Sentimental Clutter in Your Life is a Whole Piano

    By Chris Cander  January 24, 2019
    Feature

    5 Literary Classics That Have Yet to Be Adapted, and How We’d Cast Them

    By Emily Temple  January 24, 2019
    Awards

    When a Very Small Press Wins a Pulitzer

    By Paul Harding  January 24, 2019
    Nuclear Power

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    By Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist  January 24, 2019
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    Kristen Arnett: Am I a Librarian or a Writer?

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    Dani Shapiro: Did My Parents Even Know?

    By Dani Shapiro  January 23, 2019
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    A State-By-State Survey of Literary Masterpieces

    By Emily Temple  January 23, 2019
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    In Aristotle’s Ideal Democracy, a Good Citizen Was a Good Friend

    By Edith Hall  January 23, 2019
    Burning Out

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    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 23, 2019
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    Diary of a Shutdown: A Furloughed Worker Watches 24 Hours of CNN

    By Ryan McDonald  January 22, 2019
    Excerpts

    David Treuer on the Myth of an Edenic, Pre-Columbian ‘New’ World

    By David Treuer  January 22, 2019
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    An Account of the Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard by the Police Officer, Lynwood Shull

    By Richard Gergel  January 22, 2019
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    On the Absurdities of Law on the US-Mexican Border

    By J. J. Mulligan Sepúlveda  January 22, 2019
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    Why Does This Small Vermont Town Have So Many Olympians?

    By Karen Crouse  January 22, 2019
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    Did Diderot’s Legacy Live Up To His Genius?

    By Andrew S. Curran  January 18, 2019
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    On Black Millennials in Search of the New South

    By Reniqua Allen  January 18, 2019
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    How Do You Save an Endangered Species in a Warzone?

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    Feature

    A Brief and Incomplete Survey of Edgar Allan Poes in Pop Culture

    By Emily Temple  January 18, 2019
    In Memoriam

    “Helmet, Kid, Bike.” Remembering Claudio López de Lamadrid

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    In Memoriam

    Poet Mary Oliver Dies at 83

    By Corinne Segal  January 17, 2019
    Essay

    Where New York’s Literary Single Girls Lived

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    Essay

    Reading Across America: Have Your Poetry and Eat It, Too

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    Design

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    By Emily Temple  January 15, 2019
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