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After news of Munro’s betrayal of her daughter, it’s hard not to see a preoccupation with guilt and secrets in her later work.
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Kristen Martin
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July 5, 2024
Michael Kimmage
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Alice Robb
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Kaila Philo
The Internet Supercharged the Exploitation of Black Culture
Legacy Russell traces America’s reliance on—and profit from—Black imagery, from the 1910s to the Dancing Baby meme.
June 11, 2024
Eric Herschthal
What If Reconstruction Didn’t End Till 1920?
Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.
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Emma Copley Eisenberg
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June 6, 2024
Mike Duncan
In the Ruins of Edward Gibbon’s Masterpiece
“Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” is an enduring work—just not of history.
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The 15-minute city proposed to shorten commutes and increase convenience. Why has it proven so divisive?
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Audra J. Wolfe
What Was the “Paradigm Shift”?
When Thomas Kuhn coined the term, he wasn’t referring simply to “out of the box” thinking.
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Jacob Bacharach
How Salman Rushdie Reckoned With an Unthinkable Attack
His memoir “Knife” answers violence with art, and explores the limits of the imagination.
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Jacob Silverman
The Inventor of the Chatbot Tried to Warn Us About A.I.
Joseph Weizenbaum’s underrated book “Computer Power and Human Reason” cautioned against confusing people with machines.
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Ben Metzner
Can You Be Anti-Zionist but Pro-Israel?
The Jewish studies professor Shaul Magid thinks it’s possible to resist Zionism without rejecting the state. He calls this “counter-Zionism.”
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Jack McCordick
Inside the Complicated World of Human Smuggling
Jason De León’s ambitious ethnography paints human smugglers not as inhuman villains but as individuals navigating an inhuman system.
April 18, 2024
Caitlin Zaloom
How the Suburbs Became a Trap
Neighborhoods that once promised prosperity now offer crumbling infrastructure, aged housing stock, and social animus.
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