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Scott W. Stern An AIDS Activist’s Archive The obituaries saved by one social worker are, essentially, a list of names and the barest outlines of biography. But in their silences, they contain multitudes. October 29, 2021
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Colin Grant Sins of the Fathers In Life of a Klansman, Edward Ball’s white supremacist great-great-grandfather becomes a case study in the enduring legacy of slavery. November 18, 2021 issue
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Ruth Margalit Trains to Nowhere Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s novel The Passenger dwells on the hopeless roaming of a wealthy Jewish Berliner in the days immediately following Kristallnacht. November 18, 2021 issue
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Alice Kaplan War and Memory in France and Algeria Sixty years after the end of the Algerian War of Independence, “painful passions” on both sides continue to impede the reconciliation of the French and Algerian people. November 18, 2021 issue
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Ed Park, interviewed by Sable Gravesandy and Anacaona Rodriguez Martinez A Good Story to Tell “As an editor, I liked it when writers opened my eyes to their passions, however obscure they might seem. As a writer, I want to do the same.” October 30, 2021
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Alissa Quart Anti-Rent Wars, Then and Now Amid the 1840s economic crisis, landlords tried to drive out tenants in default. The remarkable movement that rose to challenge evictions can be a model for today’s housing activists. October 25, 2021
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Marilynne Robinson On Edgar Allan Poe Crypts, entombments, physical morbidity: these nightmares figure prominently in Edgar Allan Poe’s tales, a fictional world in which the word that recurs most crucially is horror. February 5, 2015 issue
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