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Why Send Whale Song Into Space?

On Carl Sagan, Humpback Whales, and Alien Intelligences

 
By Margret Grebowicz  September 15, 2017
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A Journey to the Heart of Old Japan

By Kenny Fries  September 15, 2017
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The German-Jewish Refugees Who Created Curious George

By Nicholas Delbanco  September 15, 2017
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To Heal or To Hurt? On Being a Military Medic in Iraq

By Jon Kerstetter  September 15, 2017
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To Abolish the Chinese Language: On a Century of Reformist Rhetoric

By Thomas S. Mullaney  September 15, 2017
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Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the Meaning of “Survivor”

By Elizabeth Rosner  September 15, 2017
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From Triumph to Terror: How America Grappled with the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

By Jennet Conant  September 14, 2017
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The Little Known, Much Loved Cookbook That Was Ahead of Its Time

By Adam Federman  September 14, 2017
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11 Ways of Looking at Pleasure

By Alex Lemon  September 14, 2017
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Writing the Untold History of American Imperial Power

By Alfred McCoy  September 14, 2017
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How Technology Makes Us Less Free

By Franklin Foer  September 13, 2017
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How French Cuisine Took Over the World

By Henry Notaker  September 13, 2017
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Waiting in the Borderlands with Kurdish Refugees

By Kapka Kassabova  September 13, 2017
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Drinking With Stalin on Christmas: An American in Moscow at the Dawn of the Cold War

By Jennet Conant  September 12, 2017
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The Living Infinite

By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 12, 2017
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Read from Andre Alexis’s Hidden Keys

By Literary Hub  September 12, 2017
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Read the Essay “Big Red” from Ashleigh Young’s Can You Tolerate This?

By Literary Hub  September 12, 2017
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Sing, Unburied, Sing

By Angel Nafis  September 11, 2017
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Balzac Tried to Buy a Waistcoat for Every Day of the Year (and Other Revelations of Parisian Fashion)

By Valerie Steele  September 11, 2017
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Audre Lorde: We Must Learn to Use Our Power

By Audre Lorde  September 11, 2017
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At Ellis Island, Imagining My Father’s Journey to America

By Jane Lazarre  September 8, 2017
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Scenes from an Emergency Clinic in the Sonoran Desert

By Lee Sandusky  September 7, 2017
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Dinner at the Center of the Earth

By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 6, 2017
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The Golden House

By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 5, 2017
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The Most Important Skill I Learned at Art School: How to Bullshit

By Chelsea Martin  September 5, 2017
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