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It’s Me, the Plucky, Unlikely Heroine of the Children’s Books That Defined You
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An Excerpt from Randy: The Full and Complete Unedited Biography and Memoir of the Amazing Life and Times of Randy S.!
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The Menopaumorphosis
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Board Games For Adjunct Professors
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September 7, 2018I, Too, Grew Up In the Crime-Ridden Streets of Bethesda, Maryland
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September 5, 2018I Am Part of the Resistance Inside Nyarlathotep’s Death Cult
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September 4, 2018List: Sensible Hairstyles for Women Over 50
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September 7, 2018Why Are Men Getting So Hysterical About The Penis Legislation Act?
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September 12, 2018List: Myths About Your Thirties — Debunked
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September 17, 2018A Day In the Life of a Female Incel
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September 19, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: The Environment On Main Street
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September 17, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: The Same Reality
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September 14, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Phone a Friend
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September 12, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Kindness and Clarity
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September 11, 2018Welcoming Remarks Made at a Literary Reading, 9/25/01
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September 10, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: It’s Simple
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September 7, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: What Kind of World Is This?
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Read an interview with Daniel Gumbiner, author of The Boatbuilder, which is long-listed for the 2018 National Book Award.
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Listen to “Borderlands,” the latest episode of our arts & culture podcast, the Organist.
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ONE SMALL BLOW AGAINST ENCROACHING TOTALITARIANISM. Essays from cultural voices alongside things you can do to take action against the paralyzing apoplexy of the daily news.
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Daniel Gumbiner's The Boatbuilder follows Eli Koenigsberg, who's never faced a challenge he couldn't push through—until a concussion leaves him with headaches and a weakness for opiates. -
The brand-new edition Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You—originally published in 2014, in McSweeney's 48—is available now. Now a major motion picture, Sorry to Bother You offers a raucous view... -
Since the 2016 election, reading the news each day can send even the most placid among us into a paralyzing apoplexia. We are enraged, we are bewildered, and then we get nothing done all day. We go... -
Subscribe to the Quarterly and start with Issue 53. Packed in Issue 53's purpose-built ziplock bag are seven stories printed on eight party balloons, which one must blow up to read. Gracing these...
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