The Forgotten Writers of the Shoah

What the work of women survivors can tell us about the horrors of life in the camps

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The Humanist in the Laboratory

A personal encounter with J. Robert Oppenheimer

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The Decreationist

Simone Weil’s thoughts on the unmaking of the self

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Alcaraz’s World

The future of men’s tennis is now

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Skeletons in the Closet

Six literary haunted houses to visit this October

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Turning Leaves and Turning Pages

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The Case for Empathy

Walk a mile in someone else's words

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Our favorite epistolary novels

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“Lullaby” by May Sarton

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A Selection from Station Island by Seamus Heaney

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“I Want Both of Us” by Hafiz

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“How to Remember Heat” by Michelle Murphy

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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