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Parties Foul

by Laura Bates,

From themes of parties that have been held by college students in the United States and the U.K., collected by Laura Bates. Her book Everyday Sexism will be published in…

Save Our Public Universities

by Marilynne Robinson,

In defense of America’s best idea

The Rogue Agency

by Christopher Ketcham,

A USDA program that tortures dogs and kills endangered species

Ex Post

by Annie Dillard,

The life of a woman of letters

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by Justin Sullivan,

Rule, Britannica

by John Crowley,

They look like a segment of Borges’s Library of Babel: twenty-four volumes almost uniform in bulk (a thousand pages each, give or take a few), identically bound in a reddish-brown…