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Lessons in Living in the Anthropocene (From the World’s Most Pessimistic Climate Writer)

Daegan Miller on the Often Misunderstood Work of Roy Scranton

How George Saunders’s Analysis of Russian Masters Provides a Critical Language for Audio Narratives

By Sarah Montague

“Faithless and Foolish.” How a Young George Washintgon Failed Upward Into an Unpaid Internship

By H.W. Brands

Our Hormones Make Us Who We Are

By Dr. Saira Hameed

How This is Your Brain on Music Transformed Neuroscience

By Elizabeth Margulis

Why Everyone is Talking About Salome These Days

By Leslie Baird

Why, As Writers, Do We Cut the Things We Love?

By Kayla Rae Whitaker

A Pawnshop of the Mind: In Praise of Object-Based Writing

By Emily Rapp Black

On Copaganda, Pinkwashing, and the Time I Almost Became an NYPD Cop

By Steven W. Thrasher

On the Run and Underground: When Your Mom’s on the FBI’s Most Wanted List

By Zayd Ayers Dohrn

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What It Means to Go From School Drop Out to Writing Tutor

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On Authenticity, Acquisition, and the Secret Lives of Objects

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Beyond Man U: One Man’s Journey Into the Depths of English Football’s Lower Divisions

By Todd Smith

Translator Beware: On the Myth of the Finicky English Reader

By Anton Hur

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Writing in Exile: Why Russian Dissident Literature Demands Our Attention

By Katherine Kelaidis

Lucy Ives Offers a Few Creative Prompts to Knock You Off Kilter

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Who to Blame For the Rise of the Yuppie? Investment Banks, Obviously

By Dylan Gottlieb

The Turk and The Whore, America’s First Reality TV Couple (c. 1630)

By Alan Mikhail

When the Librarians Fought the Archivists Over Who Gets the Declaration of Independence

By Michael Auslin

When the Librarians Fought the Archivists Over Who Gets the Declaration of Independence

By Michael Auslin

On the Early—and Unlikely Friendship—of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

By Jim Rasenberger

On the Particular Joys of Etymology and Polyglot Prose

By Geoffrey D. Morrison