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In The Great Escape (1963), the true story of a harrowing breakout from a German POW camp

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Poems read aloud, beautifully

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In search of the Underground Railroad’s legendary conductor

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Who was George Eyser, the one-legged German-American gymnast who astounded at the Olympic Games?

Her brother’s disease leads a writer to challenge how we conceive of human abnormality in the emerging era of gene editing

All that’s past isn’t necessarily present

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In architecture, the gulf between the traditional and the modern seems wider than ever before

The debate over evolution and its discoverer

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Reading Sartre aloud inside a maximum-security prison

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