ESSAY: Ken Burns's Documentary Shines a New Light on Ernest Hemingway
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[We] want to offer viewers an honest portrayal of a complex and conflicted writer”
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ESSAY: The Chilling History of Modern Gynecology – and What We Owe Black Women.
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‘Medical Bondage’ Chronicles how the White “Fathers” of Gynecology Built the Field on Enslaved Black Women
Read MoreESSAY: Can We Save American Theater by Reviving a Bold Idea from the 1930s?
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The Federal Theatre Project Put Dramatic Artists to Work — and We Could Do it Again
Read MoreESSAY: A (Very) Anxious Public Speaker Goes on Book Tour
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Like it or Not, It Was Necessary to Embrace the Idea of Getting Up on Stage
Read MoreESSAY: What is Anthony Trollope Good For? Among Other Things, Explaining Trump
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7 Ways the Author of ‘The Way Live Now’ Warned Us Back in 1875
Read MoreESSAY: For July 4, Let's Reflect on America's Eternal Divide: Equal Opportunity vs. Private Property
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The Underappreciated Tension Between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
Read MoreESSAY: An Author Wonders: Why Does Everyone Think My Protagonist is Me?
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What Part of “It is a Novel” Do People Not Understand?
Read MoreESSAY: Mother Always Said, "Read at Least 20 Pages a Day"
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Fast Forward a Few Decades, and My Mother’s Simple Dictate Has Grown Surprisingly Complicated.
Read MoreESSAY: The Perils and Pleasures of Peanut Butter
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When the Delivery System of Choice is Not a Conventional Knife, but a Spoon
Read MoreESSAY: It's 'High Noon' for Mueller v. Trump
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Will Mueller Save the Nation? And Why are We a Nation that Needs to Be Saved?
Read MoreESSAY: A Book-Lover's Guide to the 2018 Academy Awards
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From Best Picture on Down, there is Literature Behind the Nominees
Read MoreESSAY: Appreciating the Wisdom of Ursula K. Le Guin, Now that She’s Gone
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She Found Something Hopeful in Even the Most Challenging of Circumstances
Read MoreESSAY: "Somebody's Gotta Say It": A Feminist Wrestles With Chris Rock's Humor
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"Critics, All of Them Men, as Far as I Can Tell, Have Lavished Praise . . ."
Read MoreESSAY: Teaching at Georgetown-Qatar: Liberal Education Amid Illiberalism
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American Universities in the Mideast Dwell in a Realpolitik World of Wealth, Exploitation and Oppression
Read MoreESSAY: The Great Studs Terkel, Immortalized on Canvas, in His Hometown
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An Enthralling Portrait of the Oral History Legend, Tape Recorder in Hand
Read MoreESSAY: It's a New Game of Thrones Season, but Where is the Next Book?
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The TV Show Has Pulled Ahead of the Books in Plot, and That Continues
Read MoreESSAY: Fireflies in a Glass: Catching the Light After an Author is Gone
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Reynolds Price's Niece on Being a Literary Executor for a Great Writer
Read MoreESSAY: The Trump and Xi Jinping Era: Finding Support in Music and Words
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These creative works "won't keep the sky from falling," but they help
Read MoreESSAY: On the Gorsuch Nomination -- and Remembering Thurgood Marshall
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Oh for the Days When a Supreme Court Appointment Moved the Nation Forward
Read MoreESSAY: A Son Reflects on the Parallels Between Mike Royko and Randy Newman
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The Great Columnist and the Great Songwriter were Irreverent Intellectual Soulmates
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