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MacKenzie Scott Steps Back Into Spotlight With New Book

She posted four pages of a manuscript on a newly started Substack newsletter on Saturday and said that the novel would be released serially throughout August.

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After a minor renaissance in the late 20th century, narrative poetry is being eclipsed by lyric poetry. That’s a shame

After a minor renaissance in the late 20th century, narrative poetry is being eclipsed by lyric poetry. That’s a shame

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What if feelings aren’t peripheral to rational thought and are, instead, part of the machinery that makes rational thought possible?

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For John Berger, the dead and the living were interdependent — and the stronger the link, the happier and healthier the society

For John Berger, the dead and the living were interdependent — and the stronger the link, the happier and healthier the society

Editing was largely absent from British publishing until midcentury, emerging only as firms grew too big to take risks on new writers

Editing was largely absent from British publishing until midcentury, emerging only as firms grew too big to take risks on new writers

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