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Edward Hower

Edward Hower  has published eight novels. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Southern Review, Epoch, and elsewhere.

Voyages

Voyages 

by Edward Hower | Monday, December 03, 2018
The Witch Temple of Mehandipur

The Witch Temple of Mehandipur

To an Indian town the possessed come in droves, their families desperate to be rid of the evil that curses them

by Edward Hower | Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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The NASA You Never Hear About

by Isabelle Taft

Fifty years ago, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, the moment represented years of work and technical accomplishment. But it also left NASA struggling with a daunting new challenge: figuring out what to do next. Over the years, it has answered this question in part by highlighting the dizzying array of inventions it has inspired—some 1,500 a year. “Besides rocket science itself, perhaps the biggest thing people fail to understand about the agency is how its work has reverberated throughout the world in ways we experience directly every day,” writes Isabelle Taft. “It’s a mark of the agency’s enduring influence that even if we never make it there, we’re already living in a society forged by outer space.”