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Clay Risen

Clay Risen is a senior staff editor at The New York Times and the author, most recently, of The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act.

Herman Hesse’s <em>The Glass Bead Game</em>

Herman Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game

The difference between scholarship and wisdom

by Clay Risen | Monday, November 09, 2015
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Lithium, Water, and Suicide

by Clay Risen | Thursday, June 27, 2013
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Spies Among Us

Military snooping on civilians, which escalated in the turbulent '60s, never entirely went away and is back again on a much larger scale

by Clay Risen | Monday, December 01, 2008

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Finding Your Voice

by Larry Woiwode

The novelist and short-story writer Larry Woiwode, whose 1975 book Beyond the Bedroom Wall was one of the most acclaimed works of fiction of the era, died recently in North Dakota. He lived in the state for nearly 45 years, writing and working on his organic farm. He also served, for many years, as the poet laureate of North Dakota. In our Summer 2019 issue, Woiwode remembered his development as a writer—and how he ultimately came to find his voice.

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