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The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

Rose Horowitch·The Atlantic9.0(2)(2)

The Truth of El Mozote

Mark Danner·The New Yorker

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They Gave Her A Lobotomy So Her Brother Could Be President

Linda Caroll·Substack

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The Lazarus File

Matthew McGough·The Atlantic

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Of the Coming of John

W.E.B. Du Bois·Books & Collections

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The Law of Acceleration

Henry Adams·Books & Collections

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Coatesville

John Jay Chapman·Books & Collections

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The Devil Baby at Hull-House

Jane Addams·The Atlantic

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The Hills of Zion

H.L. Mencken·Books & Collections

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The Old Stone House

Edmund Wilson·Books & Collections

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The Ethics of Living Jim Crow

Richard Wright·Books & Collections

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Knoxville: Summer of 1915

James Agee·Partisan Review

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Nature

Once More to the Lake

E.B. White·Harper's Magazine

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The Future Is Now

Katherine Anne Porter·Books & Collections

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Artists in Uniform

Mary McCarthy·Harper's Magazine

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The Dalai Lama Escapes from the Chinese

TIME Staff·Time

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A Hundred Thousand Straightened Nails

Donald Hall·Books & Collections

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Letter from Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King, Jr.·Books & Collections

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The Way to Rainy Mountain

N. Scott Momaday·Books & Collections

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Race

The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King

Elizabeth Hardwick·New York Review of Books

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Illumination Rounds

Michael Herr·Esquire

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Race

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou·Books & Collections

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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

Dee Brown·A-fwd

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We Have Always Survived

Robert Shaplen·The New Yorker

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