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To Accept the Things I Cannot Change
Menstrual cycles are not an illness, and medicating them as if they are—suppressing the body's…
How the Greatest Comic Collab Came Together
"It wasn't easy, but enthusiasm can move mountains," wrote Marvel Comics publisher…
Witness to the Great Unsettling
The poet Marianne Moore is credited with describing what poets do as "the art of creating…
A Founding Document Finds Its Principles
Akhil Reed Amar's Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution, 1840–1920 covers a period…
Ted’s Excellent Adventures
It cannot be said that Theodore Roosevelt has suffered from historical neglect. Harvard's…
A Righteous Man in Japan
In the early 1940s, in the middle of World War II, a young Jewish student was arrested for wearing…
Rushdie on Death and Dying (While Remaining Alive and…
Through no fault of his own, the author Sir Salman Rushdie has become the English-speaking world’s…
The Price of the Party at Barneys
To become a man in the Jewish tradition, a 13-year-old boy must have a bar mitzvah, a puberty rite…
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