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Mirinae Lee on Learning How to Write About War

To have your work compared to a monumental literary title is always an honor and a burden to a writer. My debut novel, 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster is often described as a historical novel...

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Why We Need a Women’s History of the Roman Empire

There is a story from the 1970s often told by Roman historians of gender. It goes like this: students at an American college approached their male professor, a revered Roman historian, to request a...

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American Nightmare: Alice Driver on the Immigrants Who Risked Their Lives at...

“Nothing is more American than meatpacking,” writes Alice Driver early in her new book Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company. As she then...

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Invasions, Empires, Political Bromances: Five Nonfiction Books That Explain...

Shortly before my first business trip to Nigeria, I asked a group of colleagues—all learned West Africa analysts—to recommend a few books that would familiarize me with the powerhouse African nation....

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