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    What a Woman Must Do to Become King

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    Silicon Valley’s Radical New Idea: Treat Employees Well

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    The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

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    How to Sell a Candidate to the Public: Andrew Jackson Edition

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    Eula Biss: Grappling with Whiteness in Two Iowa Towns

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    English Tourists in Italy Have Been Complaining for 300 Years

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    Antisemitism

    They Don’t Kill Us Because of How We Pray

    By Emily Geminder  November 5, 2018
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    Twenty-Three Things About W.H. Auden

    By Bill Berkson  November 5, 2018
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