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    William Seabrook, Great Travel Writer, Terrible Human

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    Reader, I Impeached Him

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    Mass Deportations Can Really Wreck Your Country

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    How Paul Cézanne Taught Émile Zola to Look with a Painter’s Eye

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    By Emily Temple  February 15, 2017
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    Book Twitter, Ride-Sharing, and the End of Strangers

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    Love and Terror in Pasternak’s Russia

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    Personal Essay

    The Time I Blasted My Father’s Ashes Into the Sky

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    A Generation After Roe v. Wade, the Fight Comes Back to Texas

    By Kathleen Kent  February 13, 2017
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    Mary Gaitskill: I Have Nothing Rational to Say About What’s Happening Now

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    When Farm-to-Table Fare Meets an Indie Bookstore

    By Nate Brown  February 10, 2017
    Personal Essay

    When Your Hometown is Crammed With Aspiring Writers

    By Kathleen Donohoe  February 10, 2017
    In Memoriam

    Carlos Fonseca on the Legacy of Ricardo Piglia

    By Carlos Fonseca Suarez  February 10, 2017
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    No Amount of “Research” Can Take Hot Mr. Darcy Away From Us

    By Emily Temple  February 10, 2017
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    Librarians in the 21st Century: The Power of Our Choices

    By Robin Bradford  February 9, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Angels, Devils, and Falling From Grace into Fiction

    By Sara Flannery Murphy  February 9, 2017
    Op-Ed

    Please Don’t Buy Books Just to Send to Trump

    By Emily Temple  February 8, 2017
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