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It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad.

Maris Kreizman on the Increasingly Impossible Job of the Editor

On the Crazy 1963 Tour That Established the Rolling Stones’ Bad Boy Image

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Why We All Hate the Word “Moist” So Much

By Valerie Fridland

Prone To Be Productive: In Praise of Writing in Bed

By Megan O'Grady

Jayne Anne Phillips on Chronicling Her West Virginia Upbringing and Writer’s Journey

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How Lewis and Clark Invented the Western

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Eight Books About Women With Secret Lives

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When (and Why) Exactly Did Elon Musk Make His Hard Turn to the Right?

By Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff

On the Unique and Ongoing Relationship Between Bob Dylan and the Beatles

By Jim Windolf

How Writing Helped Me Heal After a Trauma

By Grace Spulak

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On the US-Israeli Coalition’s Continued Acts of Scholasticide in the Middle East

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How Amazing Stories Served as the Blueprint for American Science Fiction

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On Learning About the Enslaved Men Who Dug South Carolina’s Lowcountry Canals

By Virginia McGee Richards

On the Global Conspiracy to Make Childcare More Expensive

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