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    By Keen On  July 31, 2023
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    Read W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 28, 2023
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    Watch the trailer for the new Joyce Carol Oates documentary.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 28, 2023
    Streaming Guide

    The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in August

    By Emily Temple  July 28, 2023
    Russia

    “A Small, Vengeful Man:” How Vladimir Putin Began His Iron-Fisted Reign

    By Masha Gessen  July 28, 2023
    American Presidents

    “One of the Greatest in United States History”: On the Friendship Between Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge

    By Laurence Jurdem  July 28, 2023
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    How Barbie Captures the Plasticity of Our Surreal Times

    By Keen On  July 28, 2023
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    Lena Andrews on the American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

    By Keen On  July 28, 2023
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    Tom Holm on Ira Hayes and the Price of Heroism

    By Keen On  July 28, 2023
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    Alas, poor Yorick, I didn’t know her: xoxopublishinggg is going on hiatus for ‘the indefinite future.’

    By Emily Temple  July 27, 2023
    Black History

    How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

    By Christopher Cameron  July 27, 2023
    Book Covers

    The 17 Best Book Covers of July

    By Emily Temple  July 27, 2023
    Day jobs

    How I Became a Modern Bootlegger

    By John Koopman  July 27, 2023
    Keen On

    How Work Culture Intersects with the Crisis of Masculinity

    By Keen On  July 27, 2023
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    Julian Barnes: How to Become a Wise Teacher

    By Keen On  July 27, 2023
    Keen On

    On the Historical and Contemporary Significance of Oppenheimer

    By Keen On  July 27, 2023
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    Joe Allen on Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity

    By Keen On  July 27, 2023
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    Weird, funny, dark children’s books that I can recommend (as an adult, however).

    By Janet Manley  July 26, 2023
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    Exclusive: See the cover for Phillip B. Williams’s debut novel, Ours.

    By Literary Hub  July 26, 2023
    Muses

    Excavating Dora Maar: On the Afterlives of Art History’s Forgotten Women

    By Anne Boyd Rioux  July 26, 2023
    Sharks

    When Predator Becomes Prey: Why Sharks Need Protection From Humans

    By Greg Skomal and Ret Talbot  July 26, 2023
    Family Histories

    Mihret Sibhat on the Stories Our Names Tell

    By Mihret Sibhat  July 26, 2023
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    Keggie Carew on How Humans Are Just Another Species

    By Keen On  July 26, 2023
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    What do we think about Maya Hawke as Flannery O’Connor?

    By Janet Manley  July 25, 2023
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    The Academy of American Poets has announced its 2023 Poet Laureate Fellows.

    By Emily Temple  July 25, 2023
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