The Snow Maiden

… the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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Ho Ho Horror

… public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.
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The Diagnostician of Despair

… novel who left his many newborns in orphanages; an influential theorist of political community who fled the company of others; a misogynist who encouraged mothers to breast-feed their infants; and a supremely gifted writer who never failed to write how much he regretted becoming a writer. Today, Rousseau is held responsible for, among other …

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Such as It Is

… generally, you can’t do two things at once. Do the important one.
During the civil war, my friend’s grandmother had a family of eight to feed. Food was so scarce that she would feel the bellies of her children at suppertime to determine who had already scavenged food during the day—a piece …

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Kinship and Contradictions

… narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek and sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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Overconsumed

… the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek and sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming

… history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek and sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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All in Your Head

… Like this,” he said, extending an apple in his opened hand to the donkey.
My sons already knew to keep their fingers out of the way when feeding the donkey, but my boyfriend’s daughter was new to this. She watched wide-eyed as the donkey, with quivering velvety lips, took the apple into its …

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My Cousin Manya

… could not take care of so many people, and food was getting scarcer and scarcer. And the last few days, they said they we are going to feed everybody poisoned soup in order to finish everyone off. But whether they were too late to do it, or they did not have the time, whatever the …

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American Horror Story

… Society.
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