REVIEW: A New Biography of John Steinbeck, 'America's Most Pissed Off Writer'
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A Literary Genius Who is Perhaps Best Admired at Arm’s Length
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And a Female Scientist’s Unexpected Friendship with a Fox
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And a Novel from the 1930s that was Prescient in Its Understanding of Where Nazism Was Heading
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And the Tragic Story of an Artistic European Family
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And a Powerful Memoir from a Woman Whose Father Served a Long Prison Sentence for Rape
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Matasha was my first major experience of discovering plot as I wrote.
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And a Deep Dive from Bill Bratton on Modern Policing
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With a Passion and Clarity Missing from Most Political Journalists, She Strips Away Myths
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And How the Space Race of the 1960s was Driven by Cold War Politics
Read MoreQ&A: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary, and 100th Issue, of Poetry East Magazine
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In the notoriously fleeting world of poetry publications, the journal’s record of sustained excellence is remarkable
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And the Case of an Anti-Gang Peace Advocate Who Shot a Gang Member
Read MoreREVIEW: Looking Back on America's First Civil Rights Movement
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Today’s Civil Rights Advocacy is Part of a Mighty Stream Flowing from the Earliest Days of the Republic
Read MoreREVIEW: The Story of Three Women Who Co-Conspired for Abolition and Women's Rights
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Harriet Tubman, Frances Miller Seward, and Martha Coffin Wright Worked Together to Change the World
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And Discovering the Wisdom of Trees
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A Rags-to-Enormous-Riches Story with Dark Undercurrents
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And Exploring the Legacy of a Harvard Homer Professor Who Died Mysteriously
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And Why Her Parents Were, Together, a ‘Sight Gag’
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And Essays from a Mixed-Race Writer Who Thinks of Herself as “a Perpetual Foreigner”
Read MoreREVIEW: When it Comes to War, Never Say Never
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The Grim Reality of History is that Peace is All Too Often Merely a Prelude to the Next War
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And Ricki Lee Jones Looks Back on Her Life as a Troubadour
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