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    The 16 Best Book Covers of April

    By Emily Temple  April 30, 2019
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    Edmund White on Stonewall, the ‘Decisive Uprising’ of Gay Liberation

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    Why Was Shakespeare Wary of
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    The Stories We Tell Our Sons
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    The Journey That Changed Geoffrey Chaucer’s Life

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    Edward Said on the Death of American Activist Rachel Corrie

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    An Appeal to the ‘Democratic Conscience of the State’
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    Deborah Landau, Writing Poems For
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    Queer Lit

    James Baldwin in Paris: On the Virtuosic Shame of Giovanni’s Room

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 25, 2019
    The American Midwest

    The View from the Middle of Everything

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    On Early 20th-Century America’s Unhealthy Fixation with ‘Hygiene’

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