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His Listening
A celebration of a rare and extraordinary thing Read More
The Bulletin Board of Your Head
Crush
Cinnabar
Friday Morning Pop Quiz
Playing Ball in Brooklyn
The National Sport
The occasional diary of an American graduate student in England
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Knut Hamsun’s Pan
A throbbing world of sensation and heartbreak Read More
The Best of Gregory Clark
Henry Beston’s The Outermost House
John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace
George Eliot’s Middlemarch
John Steinbeck’s East of Eden
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The Old Home Place
For many members of my family, it was a mental institution Read More
Freelancing
Drought
Piercing the Veil
Coming Home
Happy All the Time
Leaving Alabama
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Uncommon Podcasts
Three outlets for the radically curious Read More
The Paradox of Poetry
Pessimists and Progress
Words Under Siege
Storytelling in the Podcast Age
Not Waving
Of Poets and a President

A blog about psycholinguistics with posts each Thursday by Jessica Love, a psychologist and science writer at Northwestern University. Her most recent article “Reading Fast and Slow” appeared in our Spring 2012 issue.
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Magic Fingers
Do baby sign language courses really work? Read More
What Makes Hemingway Hemingway?
On Expecting Things to Fall Apart
Limericks That Leave You Hanging
Tuesdays with Siri
How to Talk Shakespeare
Headless Bear Walks Up to Woman; Awesomeness Ensues

A blog about the new, the odd, and the wonderful, with posts each Wednesday by Josie Glausiusz, who has written about every topic known to science, from physics to furry animals, for magazines that include Nature, National Geographic, Discover, and Wired. She is the co-author of Buzz: The Intimate Bond Between Humans and Insects.
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So More Can Live
With a little money and basic care, more mothers and babies could survive. Read More
Thanks for the Gratitude
Making of the Moon
Selfie Defense
Farewell
Underserved in Health Care
To Be Young, Male, and Black
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Urban Wild
In slowly gentrifying Detroit, you might see a fox, or even a coyote, but where have all the stray dogs gone? Read More
Driving Toward the Breach
The Grand Army of the Republic
The Little Aquarium That Could
80,000 Squirrels on My Block Alone
Snapshots
Thriving and Striving
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A Positively, Final Appearance
And an exhortation to read, read, read Read More
Ending Up
Book Projects
Money
A Dreamer’s Tale
Let Us Now Praise Dover Books
Books for the Holidays
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Looking Ahead
And saying goodbye Read More
First Snow
Heading to Nanwalek
Election Day
Playing at Survival
Outbreak
Closing Up and Putting Away

A blog about the art of teaching, with new posts each Tuesday by Paula Marantz Cohen, a distinguished professor of English at Drexel University and the author of the novels Jane Austen in Scarsdale or Love, Death and the SATs and What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James and Jack the Ripper.
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Tennis, Anyone?
Obsession and regression Read More
Memories of Jazz Nights
Valentines Past
On the Death of Friendship
On Keeping a Blog
A Visit to Harvard
Remembering Cynthia Macdonald
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The Story of an Exile
Arnold Schoenberg and his Piano Concerto Read More
The Composer as Dissident
Beethoven and James Bond
Nationalist Anthems
Food of Love
A Composer in an Antique Land
This Is What Terror Sounds Like

A blog about expatriate life in Paris. Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author of a memoir, Losing My Cool. He is at work on a book about how we define race in America, told through his own experience of growing up with a white mother and black father, and of raising a blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter in France.
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Reaching Out
The best way to escape our current political predicament is to keep talking Read More
You Must Be Joking
Language Unbound
On the Turning Away
License to Chill
Existential Split
Too Much of a Good Thing
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The Last Post
All Points ends its run Read More