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Test Your Knowledge of History’s Most Famous Libraries

Try this short quiz on five of the globe’s renowned repositories of human learning.

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Test Your Knowledge of History’s Most Famous Libraries

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Book Review: ‘The Emergency Playbook,’ by Amy Edelman and Chris Begley

“The Emergency Playbook” is a disaster preparation guide that emphasizes community rather than lone-hero fantasies.

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Book Review: ‘The Emergency Playbook,’ by Amy Edelman and Chris Begley

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‘There Was Love, and Then There Was Suffering’: A Q&A With Christian Wiman

“The minute you are convinced that you have grasped something true about God, it dissolves in you.”

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‘There Was Love, and Then There Was Suffering’: A Q&A With Christian Wiman

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Tom Junod Asks: Can a Bad Man Be a Good Father?

What one writer found at the end of a decades-long search into his father’s secret world.

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Tom Junod Asks: Can a Bad Man Be a Good Father?

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With ‘Girls Like Girls,’ Hayley Kiyoko Turns Her Teenage Pain Into Art

The once-closeted star has reinvented her song “Girls Like Girls” as a best-selling Y.A. novel and a new theatrical film. It wasn’t easy.

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With ‘Girls Like Girls,’ Hayley Kiyoko Turns Her Teenage Pain Into Art

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A Tenacious Lifeguard Still Swims Against the Tide

Janet Fash was always outspoken when it came to keeping beachgoers safe. She lays it all out in her feisty new memoir.

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A Tenacious Lifeguard Still Swims Against the Tide