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How Sex and the City Exemplifies Late 20th-Century Feminist Despair

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Warts and All: In Praise of the Unauthorized Biography

Warts and All: In Praise of the Unauthorized Biography

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On Egypt’s Unjust Incarceration of the Writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, and the Hunger Strike of Dr. Laila Soueif

On Egypt’s Unjust Incarceration of the Writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, and the Hunger Strike of Dr. Laila Soueif

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How Edna Lewis Exemplified the Ethos of Queerness Throughout Her Life

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John Birdsall on the Unconventional, Trailblazing Existence of an Icon of Southern Cooking

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Standing Tall: On the Value and Importance of Women Who Take Up Space

Standing Tall: On the Value and Importance of Women Who Take Up Space

Jane Smiley in Conversation with Susan Swan, Author of “Big Girls Don’t Cry”

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Rambling Genealogies: Nandshankar Mehta and the Forgotten History of South Asian Cosmopolitanism

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Here’s the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

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Welcome to Pensacola, Florida, America’s Book-Banning Capital

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Why America Can’t Get Enough of <em>The Wizard of Oz</em>

Why America Can’t Get Enough of The Wizard of Oz

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How a “Centuries-Old” Carpet Duped Art Dealers and Curators For Decades

How a “Centuries-Old” Carpet Duped Art Dealers and Curators For Decades

Dorothy Armstrong Explores the History of Real and Fake Antique Textiles, from Central Asia to Europe

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