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Three hundred years ago, the satirist warned of a world in which reading and writing are replaced by the flashy simulation of human knowledge. Can he help us fix it?

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As my community modernized, we used Pennsylvania Dutch less and less. Now I'm trying to preserve it.

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The author’s intricate, unsettling new novel is a book of echoes and parallels.

Who will mourn the last letter?

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A review of Speaking in Tongues.

Five Iranian women, all human rights activists, write of life behind bars.

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In Georgia’s Adjara highlands, a traditional way of life is slowly disappearing.

Mafalda, the Argentine comic strip heroine, took on war, dictatorship, and her parents.

In Guatemala, mothers fight for their trafficked and illegally adopted children.

Farming vs. the earth in contemporary film.

A new history traces the development and influence of the global Wages for Housework movement from its founding to present day.

A new history traces the development and influence of the global Wages for Housework movement from its founding to present day.

Under Arnolds Field, tonnes of illegally dumped waste have been burning for years, spewing pollution over the area. Locals fear for their health – and despair that no one seems willing to help

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Narratives of marriage and its dissolution – Hermione Hoby

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How international human rights law fails to recognize the rights of the dead.