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America Is Anxious About Its 250th Birthday. So Are Historians.

At the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, scholars wrestled with what people want from national anniversaries — and whether historians can give it to them.

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America Is Anxious About Its 250th Birthday. So Are Historians.

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Book Review: ‘How It Feels to Be Alive,’ by Megan O’Grady

“How It Feels to Be Alive,” by Megan O’Grady, blends criticism with personal history to explore how and why art affects us.

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Book Review: ‘How It Feels to Be Alive,’ by Megan O’Grady

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Book Review: ‘Permanence,’ by Sophie Mackintosh

In Sophie Mackintosh’s novel “Permanence,” cheating couples find themselves in an alternate world free of complication — and missing the mess.

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Book Review: ‘Permanence,’ by Sophie Mackintosh

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Poetry Challenge Day 2: Love, How It Works and What It Means

In short, everything. Today, learn the second stanza, which gives us the poem’s most memorable phrase: “Let the more loving one be me.” Practice this line, and the others, with help from our game.

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Poetry Challenge Day 2: Love, How It Works and What It Means

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Stolen Letters That John Keats Sent to His Beloved Are Found

The eight letters by the 19th-century Romantic poet to his fiancée, Fanny Brawne, were taken decades ago from a Whitney family estate on Long Island.

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Stolen Letters That John Keats Sent to His Beloved Are Found

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Can You Spot the Movie Line That Was Not in the Book?

Film adaptations often vary from their original source material, and this short quiz challenges you to identify certain words on the screen that were not in the novel.

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Can You Spot the Movie Line That Was Not in the Book?