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  • Want to Win $75,000 on 'Jeopardy'? Study Literature
    Eleanor BarkhornSeptember 15, 2010
  • On Seeing Phoebe in a Bus Queue
    R. P. ListerApril 1948 Issue
  • Some Recent Books on the Elizabethan Drama
    George P. BakerNovember 1903 Issue
  • Horace Howard Furness
    Agnes RepplierNovember 1912 Issue
  • The Future of Reading (Hint: It's Not All Bad)
    Heather HornMarch 30, 2011
  • Bergman Sings
    Austin BaerDecember 1994 Issue
  • Lebanon Doesn’t Need Heroes

    The destiny of the well-intentioned citizen leader need not always be that of the martyr.

    Fadlo R. KhuriNovember 1, 2019
    Demonstrators wave Lebanese national flags
  • The 5 Biggest Failures of the 112th Congress
    Chris GoodNovember 30, 2011
  • 10 of the Greatest Kisses in Literature

    Which characters had the best snog in literary history?

    Emily TempleFebruary 14, 2012
  • Last Call
    Phoebe-Lou AdamsApril 1989 Issue
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