When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

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For someone in my line of work, this feels deliciously transgressive,” writes Anne-Marie Condé in The prime minister’s potato ...

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In the course of her career, which also included a dozen earlier years on other routes, she drove an old postal jeep that she ...

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Keegan Gimbi penned this essay for his application for the third annual Land of the Free Scholarship offered by Kiel Area ...

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Maris Kreizman is a 40-something book critic, columnist for Lit Hub and one-time podcaster. In her debut essay collection “I ...