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The Real War 1939-1945

As originally published inThe Atlantic Monthly August 1989 On its fiftieth anniversary, how should we think of the Second World War? What is its contemporary meaning? One possible meaning, reflected…
LENGTH: 42 minutes (10569 words)

How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick

James Erwin, 37, works for a financial services firm in Des Moines, Iowa, writing software manuals. He’s been doing that for a couple of years, and he enjoys it. It’s a pretty low-stress…
PUBLISHED: March 20, 2012
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4954 words)

A plagiarism, By Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine)

By Jonathan Lethem All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so…
LENGTH: 43 minutes (10920 words)
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