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Lady Vols Country
“It occurred to me that the winner’s podium was a pretty good place from which to conduct a women’s movement.”
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Ornamental Hermits Were 18th-Century England’s Must-Have Garden Accessory
“Wealthy landowners hired men who agreed to live in isolation on their estates for as long as seven years.”
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Does Teaching Literature and Writing Have a Future?
“Learning that one’s job might soon be eliminated by the emergence of an overhyped new technology puts one in good company.”
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A Q&A with Julian Brave NoiseCat, a Journey Into a Fabled Forest, and Our Top 5
We learn a lot as we move along; if we’re lucky, we might shed some old wisdom for better understanding.
Posted inNewsletter
Strong Mothers, Boundless Lives, and the Week’s Top 5
We connect in such curious ways; thus are we transformed.
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Mere Belief
“One of the pivotal purposes of memoir is to unveil the shades of meaning that exist in what we believe.”
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We’re More Ghosts Than People
“I believe in redemption in the same way that I believe in heaven: I feel required to.”
Posted inNonfiction
When We Are Afraid
On teaching in a red state, the silences in our history lessons, and all I never learned about my hometown.
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At His Majesty’s Pleasure
“Our pints correspondent took the train to Poundbury for King Charles’ coronation.”
