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Poetry Challenge Day 2: Love, How It Works and What It Means

In short, everything. Today, learn the second stanza, which gives us the poem’s most memorable phrase: “Let the more loving one be me.” Practice this line, and the others, with help from our game.

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Poetry Challenge Day 2: Love, How It Works and What It Means

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Poetry Challenge Day 3: W.H. Auden, The Poet and His Technique

It helps to be a little heartsick — and the best poet of your time. Our weeklong poetry challenge continues, including W.H. Auden himself reading “The More Loving One.”

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Poetry Challenge Day 3: W.H. Auden, The Poet and His Technique

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America Is Anxious About Its 250th Birthday. So Are Historians.

At the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, scholars wrestled with what people want from national anniversaries — and whether historians can give it to them.

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America Is Anxious About Its 250th Birthday. So Are Historians.

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Book Review: ‘How It Feels to Be Alive,’ by Megan O’Grady

“How It Feels to Be Alive,” by Megan O’Grady, blends criticism with personal history to explore how and why art affects us.

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Book Review: ‘How It Feels to Be Alive,’ by Megan O’Grady

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Book Review: ‘Permanence,’ by Sophie Mackintosh

In Sophie Mackintosh’s novel “Permanence,” cheating couples find themselves in an alternate world free of complication — and missing the mess.

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Book Review: ‘Permanence,’ by Sophie Mackintosh

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Can You Spot the Movie Line That Was Not in the Book?

Film adaptations often vary from their original source material, and this short quiz challenges you to identify certain words on the screen that were not in the novel.

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Can You Spot the Movie Line That Was Not in the Book?