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How the tiniest of particles helped build the modern world. | Lit Hub Science
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12 new books to kick off your 2023 reading. | The Hub
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“What I regret is the grudge I carried for much too long.” How Zora Neale Hurston’s study of hoodoo helped Tracey Rose Peyton make peace with her father. | Lit Hub
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Susanne Pari discusses Iran’s rich history of feminist rebellion. | Lit Hub
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“The only thing in which a person can keep precious memories and love is their heart.” A letter from a teenage Joycean and Ukrainian refugee. | Lit Hub Ukraine
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“I take speaking the past to the future to be a primary moral responsibility of the art.” Jorie Graham talks to Katy Waldman about distraction, voice, and the poetic mind. | The New Yorker
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Short story writer Edith Pearlman has died at 86. | The New York Times
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Take a look inside BEM Books & More, a bookstore dedicated to Black food writing. | Bon Appetit
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“The Partition is so weighted in the South Asian imagination that, even when we’re not talking about it explicitly, it informs our mindsets, actions, and behaviors.” Read the new issue of Desi Books Review, on the 75th anniversary of the Partition. | Desi Books Review
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Christian Lorentzen considers the enduring, bipartisan appeal of Christopher Lasch. | Jacobin
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“Going home can feel particularly daunting; one may return to a place they don’t recognize, or find that they themselves have changed in ways that mean it will never be the same.” Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maxim Osipov, and others recount going home. | The Atlantic
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