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Oct 15

How one corporation exploited the amendment that was meant to protect former slaves

By Elizabeth Flock

Corporations have often leveraged progressive reforms to serve the ends of business, says author Adam Winkler. "Perhaps more surprising is that corporations have also been innovators in constitutional law."…

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Oct 14

Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo share Booker Prize

By Jill Lawless, Associated Press

The judging panel ripped up the rulebook and refused to name one winner for the prestigious fiction trophy.

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Oct 10

2 Nobel literature prize winners expose Europe’s fault lines

By Jill Lawless, David Keyton, Associated Press

The two winners were a liberal Pole who has irked her country's conservative government and an Austrian accused by many liberals of being an apologist for Serbian war crimes.

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Oct 10

Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke

By David Keyton, Associated Press

Two Nobel Prizes in literature were announced because the 2018 literature award was postponed following sex abuse allegations that rocked the Swedish Academy.

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Oct 05

Writer called a Minnesota county ‘the worst place to live.’ Then he moved there

By Megan Thompson

After being convinced by locals to visit Red Lake County, Washington Post data reporter Christopher Ingraham found that he loved it.

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Sep 19

9 books about dance that will change how you see the art form

By Elizabeth Flock

Those who write about dance are trying to capture the specificity and physicality through words. A number of books can change our understanding.

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Sep 19

National Book Awards longlist includes titles on border wall, Tribe Called Quest

By Hillel Italie, Associated Press

Hanif Abdurraqib's best-selling chronicle of A Tribe Called Quest and a memoir by chef Iliana Regan are among the works on the nonfiction longlist for the National Book Awards, as well as Greg Grandin's "The End of the Myth" about…

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Sep 12

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18 years after September 11th, an oral history that recalls the details

For everyone old enough to remember September 11th, 2001, their experience of that catastrophic day is seared into memory. But details of what the victims, survivors and emergency responders endured have faded from national consciousness over time. Now, a powerful…

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Sep 09

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Why Margaret Atwood saw this as the moment for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ sequel

By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport

“The Testaments" is the greatly anticipated sequel to Margaret Atwood’s hit dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Though it’s fiction, Atwood says she doesn't "put anything in that doesn’t have a precedent in human history.” Jeffrey Brown spoke with Atwood recently…

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Sep 09

Margaret Atwood on the dystopian novels that inspired her to write ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

By Joshua Barajas

Margaret Atwood shared some of the other influential dystopian fiction that helped lay the groundwork for “The Handmaid’s Tale," with the author nodding to the work of George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Ursula K. Le Guin, among others.

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