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Career novels for boys — they did exist!

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By Lynn Peril

CROSS YOUR ENTHUSIASM (9)

HENRY ROLLINS, PUNK POLYMATH

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By Adrienne Crew

07th
Jan

Zora Neale Hurston

An anthropologist who studied "the muck."
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By Brian Berger

06th
Jan

BRAINIAC Q&A (22)

Ray Raphael on America's founding myths.
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By Joshua Glenn

06th
Jan

Nikolai Marr

He wanted to break the hegemony of Indo-European linguistics.
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By Jacob Mikanowski

06th
Jan

S. Fowler Wright

He wrote cranky Radium Age science fiction parables.
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By Joshua Glenn

05th
Jan

12 Days of Significance (12)

Douglas Wolk vs. PORTABLE HAIRDRYER
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By Douglas Wolk

05th
Jan

Chess Match (32)

"All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon."
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By Joshua Glenn

04th
Jan

12 Days of Significance (11)

Luc Sante vs. FLANNEL BALL
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By Lucy Sante

04th
Jan

Marsden Hartley

The painter's substantial literary achievement is less well-known.
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By Brian Berger