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Lying in Politics: Reflections on The Pentagon Papers

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Peter Singer

Animal Liberation

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Susan Sontag

Illness as Metaphor

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Elizabeth Hardwick

Billie Holiday

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Ellen Willis

See America First

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Oliver Sacks

The Bull on the Mountain

June 28, 1984 issue

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Animal Liberation

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The Instrumentalist

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Susan Sontag

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James Baldwin

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Elizabeth Hardwick

Billie Holiday

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Renata Adler

The Perils of Pauline

August 14, 1980 issue

Hannah Arendt

Lying in Politics: Reflections on The Pentagon Papers

November 18, 1971 issue

Italo Calvino

Why Read the Classics?

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Gore Vidal

Remembering Orson Welles

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Václav Havel

Kicking the Door

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Maya Lin

Making the Memorial

November 2, 2000 issue

Tony Judt

On ‘The Plague’

November 29, 2001 issue

Vivian Gornick

The Enduring Romance of American Communism

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Octavio Paz

Food of the Gods

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Isaiah Berlin

The Great Amateur

March 14, 1968 issue

Charles Rosen

Aimez-Vous Brahms?

October 22, 1998 issue

Mary McCarthy

Saying Good-by to Hannah

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Noam Chomsky

A Special Supplement: The Responsibility of Intellectuals

February 23, 1967 issue

Hilton Als

Michael

August 13, 2009 issue

J.M. Coetzee

The Marvels of Walter Benjamin

January 11, 2001 issue

President Barack Obama and Marilynne Robinson

A Conversation in Iowa

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Alma Guillermoprieto

Fidel in the Evening

October 22, 1998 issue

Darryl Pinckney

Sweet Evening Breeze

December 20, 1984 issue

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