TODAY: In 1605, the first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
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- Juliette Pavy on the cruel birth control campaign Denmark carried out against Inuit women in Greenland. | The Dial
- Leslie Jamison reflects on the experience of becoming a mother, and of the unraveling of her marriage during her daughter’s first year of life. | The New Yorker
