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Tessa Thompson's brand new production company is adapting two great books by Black women for HBO.

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British Library Publishing is rushing to print the sea shanty guide we need.

British Library Publishing is rushing to print the sea shanty guide we need.

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Upgrade your writing soundtrack with Patricia Highsmith's favorite songs.

Upgrade your writing soundtrack with Patricia Highsmith's favorite songs.

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Living That Van Life, Before It <br>Was a Hashtag

Living That Van Life, Before It
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Amanda Mei Kim on Her Itinerant California Childhood

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Yiyun Li on the Brilliance of Bette Howland

Yiyun Li on the Brilliance of Bette Howland

"Howland wrote a book that I thought was impossible to write."

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What If the Stories We Tell in Order to Live Happen to Be Conspiracy Theories?

What If the Stories We Tell in Order to Live Happen to Be Conspiracy Theories?

William J. Bernstein on the Evolutionary Origins of Collective Delusion

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