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Encountering Annie Ernaux’s Urban Landscapes and Scattered Selves

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Lauren Elkin on the Writer's Approach to Reality

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On the Importance of How We Write Mental Illness in Fiction

On the Importance of How We Write Mental Illness in Fiction

Louise Nealon Considers the Ways in Which We Translate Experience

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Brilliance and Blind Luck: How Did Medieval Europe Invent the Concept of Quarantine?

Brilliance and Blind Luck: How Did Medieval Europe Invent the Concept of Quarantine?

Edward Glaeser and David Cutler on the History of Medieval Plagues and Its Connections to COVID-19

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Coming of Age and Questioning Traditional Rituals at a Boarding School in Kenya

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Nice Leng’ete on the Teacher Who Led Her to Question the Maasai Practice of Female Genital Mutilation

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WATCH: Jai Chakrabarti Launches His Debut Novel

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