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The Birth, Death, and Long Afterlife of Edward Gorey’s Gashlycrumb Tinies

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Why Did Wesley Yang Call His Book The Souls of Yellow Folk When He’s Unwilling to Look at So Many of Us?

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How School Became a Constitution-Free Zone

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The Sage of Silicon Valley Is This Previously Obscure Israeli Historian

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How Julie Doucet Taught Me to Make Art out of My Life

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The Witch Elm Suggests There’s Nothing That Tana French Can’t Do

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The Birth of the Myers-Briggs and the Unscientific Weirdness of Personality Testing

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In Her Memoir, Stormy Daniels Trumps the President

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A Spy Thriller About the Menial Office Workers Behind WWII Espionage

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Sept 25, 2018 9:00 AM

Uncle Gunnar Really, Really Didn’t Like Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle

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Why “Asian American” Is an Insufficient, Alienating Term for So Many Americans

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Barthes, NME, Depression, and the Consolation of Reading

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Sept 18, 2018 10:30 AM

Celebrating the Queer Black Radical Who Wrote A Raisin in the Sun

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Is A People’s History of the United States Any Better for Students Than the Biased Textbooks It Replaces?

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A Calm, Knowledgeable Book on the Heated Subject of Identity and Why It Matters

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Read Knausgaard From First Word to Last and He Will Change You

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Who Owns Franz Kafka?

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