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How Doug Band drove a wedge through a political dynasty

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An impassioned plea to neglected novelists, embattled professors, and tenure-less historians

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An investigation into the barely regulated, unsafe business of looking after our children

There's a genius to the way the Amish play baseball

How the acknowledgments page became the place to drop names

A mine massacre and the fight for South Africa's future

What the Internet did to Aaron Swartz

David Sedaris and a literary version of reality TV

The awkward art of the smitten word

The shocking news that Goldman Sachs is greedy

I’ve owned six guns. I’ve drawn them on bad guys. I want to be understood.