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Putin’s Attack on Ukraine is an Attack on Its Language: Poetry by Kateryna Kalytko

“Defend yourself to your last breath—and whatever you do / don’t let them near you.”

 
By Literary Hub  April 8, 2022

Tracing the Ancestry of the Earliest Enslaved Ndongo People

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By Clyde W. Ford  April 8, 2022

The Powerful Impact of Digital Media on Mass Shootings

Mark Follman on Misinformation, Sensational Headlines, and Threat Assessment

 
By Mark Follman  April 8, 2022

The Many Wars Within the Last Great War

Richard Overy on the Second World War Made and the Fall of Global Empires

 
By Richard Overy  April 8, 2022

When Joan Rivers (Finally) Got Her Big Break

“Thirty-one years of people saying ‘no.’ Ten minutes on television and it was all over.”

 
By Shawn Levy  April 8, 2022

How Perfume Becomes an Evocative Clue for Mystery Writers

Megan Volpert on the Role of Fragrance in Stories

 
By Megan Volpert  April 8, 2022
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