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    Why We Should Pay Attention to Dinesh D’Souza’s Terrible Book About Fascism

    By Mark Bray  August 21, 2017
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    The Stories We’ll Tell: Getting Ready for a Total Eclipse of the Sun

    By Valerie Geary  August 21, 2017
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    Who Should Play the Female Dorian Gray?

    By Emily Temple  August 18, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Retracing Willa Cather’s Steps in the South of France

    By Marcia DeSanctis  August 18, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Jill Bialosky: The Time I Moved to New York City to Be a Poet

    By Jill Bialosky  August 17, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Searching for Stanley Kunitz’s Garden

    By Nell Boeschenstein  August 17, 2017
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    The Long History of White Nationalism in America

    By George Hawley  August 16, 2017
    Feature

    How the Silent Book Club Gave Me Back My Reading Life

    By Maggie Downs  August 16, 2017
    Politics

    Fire, Fury, and America’s Failure to Learn From the Past

    By David L. Ulin  August 16, 2017
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    Another Way New York City is Dying: The Rise of Fauxstalgia

    By Jeremiah Moss  August 16, 2017
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    Playing the “Bigly” Game: On Poverty and Shame in America

    By Fiona Helmsley  August 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How Many Times Am I Touched in a Week? A Study

    By Stephanie Gangi  August 15, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Whose Idea of America? Rauschenberg, Whitman, or Trump?

    By Geoffrey Hilsabeck  August 15, 2017
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    When Pakistan Feels Like an L.A. Noir

    By Kamila Shamsie  August 14, 2017
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    Beyond the High Blue Air

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    Criticism

    Is The Dark Tower the Worst Stephen King Movie Ever?

    By J.W. McCormack  August 11, 2017
    Personal Essay

    To Live Like the Women of Viking Literature

    By Linnea Hartsuyker  August 10, 2017
    Awards

    Celebrating Women Writers & Readers With the Romance Writers of America

    By Tessa Dare  August 10, 2017
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    John Berger Contemplates Life and Death at the Graveside of Mahmoud Darwish

    By John Berger  August 9, 2017
    Op-Ed

    Respectability Will Not Save Us

    By Carol Anderson  August 9, 2017
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    Naked Ladies and Weird, Invisible Men

    By Carina Chocano  August 8, 2017
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    From Squalor to Salon: The Amazing, Improbable Life of Emma Reyes

    By Daniel Alarcon  August 8, 2017
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    Working Less Can Save the World (and Other Philosophies of Surfing)

    By Aaron James  August 7, 2017
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    The First English Woman to Make a Living as a Writer Was Also a Spy

    By Janet Todd  August 7, 2017
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