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  • All the Galaxy's a Stage
    Austin BaerMay 1993 Issue
  • Why There Will Never Be a List of Every Word

    An epic Twitter bot reaches the end of a task that could never be completed. 

    Robinson MeyerJune 6, 2014
  • King Lear
    Richard Grant WhiteJuly 1880 Issue
  • The Two Hamlets
    Richard Grant WhiteOctober 1881 Issue
  • Atheist Christopher Hitchens Writes Love Letter to the King James Bible
    Eleanor BarkhornApril 1, 2011
  • The Letters of Horace Howard Furness
    Henry Greenleaf PearsonFebruary 1923 Issue
  • The Plague of Abbreviation
    June 1921 Issue
  • Shaping a National Theatre
    Lawrence MalkinJanuary 1977 Issue
  • Woody Allen's Latest... It Works
    Ed KochAugust 31, 2009
  • Back to the Primitive
    John GreenwayFebruary 1969 Issue
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