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Singapore English is famous for its sentences that end with the particle lah. But what does it mean when people use the particle one instead?

Living in exile in Germany, the young New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield found solace in studying—and copying—Chekhov’s short stories.

What are scientists to do? Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton and historian of science Naomi Oreskes consider the social responsibility of climate scientists.

In sixteenth-century Spain, veiling allowed women to move freely through cities while keeping their identities private.

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An archival collection shared by Middlebury College invites the curious to make connections across the history of American literature.

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