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The pleasures of Pauline Kael
The centenary of her birth provides a good opportunity to look back at the peerless career of a film critic remembered for her acuity, fierceness and idiosyncrasy – a writer whose brilliant insights and withering put-downs inspire loyal adulation and bitter enmity like no other. By Farran Smith Nehme.
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The Batshit and Fantastical Life of Hortense Mancini
From bedding Kings to fleeing countries dressed as a pistol wielding man. Duelling her lovers, drinking, dancing and above all fighting for her independence; the life on Hortense Mancini was to be blunt, fucking insane.
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Faith, Friendship, and Tragedy at Santa Fe High
Sabika Sheikh, a Muslim exchange student from Pakistan with dreams of changing the world, struck up an unlikely friendship with an evangelical Christian girl. The two became inseparable—until the day a fellow student opened fire. By Skip Hollandsworth.
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Crow Family Thanks Man Who Helped Them With Tiny Gifts
They made him a present that couldn't be missed. By Lily Feinn.
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Secret Life of an Autistic Stripper
I've always had trouble reading social cues, but in the strip club, where rules and roles are crystal clear, I finally learned to connect. By Reese Piper.
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The Killing of Hypatia
A fight over all things visible and invisible, featuring practical magic, empire, and terrible men. By Soraya Field Fiorio.
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The 18th-Century Quaker Dwarf Who Challenged Slavery, Meat-Eating, and Racism
Benjamin Lay is not to be overlooked. By Natasha Frost. (Sept. 11, 2017)
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The Senator Who Stood Up to Joseph McCarthy When No One Else Would
Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman to serve both the House and the Senate and always defended her values, even when it meant opposing her party. By Lorraine Boissoneault.
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'Uri Avnery was was one of my few Middle East heroes'
There he is in my six-year-old notebook, very much alive, still demanding peace with the Palestinians, peace with Hamas, and generosity and a Palestinian state on the old 1967 borders – and he believes Israel could have peace tomorrow. By Robert Fisk.
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Before Snowden, an NSA Spy Tried to Incite Change From the Inside. He Called Himself the “Curmudgeon” of Signals Intelligence
Rahe Clancy thought the NSA had become too corporate. So he wrote an agitated series of missives — for the agency. By Peter Maass.
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This Black Woman Was Once the Biggest Star in Jazz. Here’s Why You’ve Never Heard of Her
Hazel Scott was a piano prodigy who wowed the worlds of music, TV and film. But when she stood up for her rights, the establishment took her down. By Lorissa Rinehart.
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Selika, Mystery of the Belle Epoque
Selika Lazevski exists in six photographs and nowhere else. She was a black Amazon in Belle Epoque Paris, a horsewoman without a horse. By Susanna Forrest.
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The tender, terrifying truth about what happened inside the Trader Joe's hostage siege
MaryLinda Moss took on the role of lead hostage negotiator inside the Silver Lake Trader Joe's when a gunman entered the store wounded. By Robin Abcarian.
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This Czech Feminist Fought Nazis, Communists, and the Patriarchy
“If the Western media had a more plausible scale of values, Milada Horáková’s name would be well known, rather than virtually unknown in the West,” writes the Czech Jewish historian Wilma Abeles Iggers. By Briggs Burton.
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The Extraordinary Life of Martha Gellhorn, the Woman Ernest Hemingway Tried to Erase
A maverick war correspondent, Hemingway's third wife was the only woman at D-Day. Her husband wanted her home in his bed. by Paula McLain.
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He was dying. Antibiotics weren't working. Then doctors tried a forgotten treatment
Phages are making a comeback. By Maryn McKenna.
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The Ladies Who Were Famous for Wanting to Be Left Alone
The Ladies of Llangollen fell in love, ran away together, and lived a scholarly life of “delicious seclusion” — secluded, that is, except for all the visitors. By Patricia Hampl.
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A Jarring Revelation
Amanda Theodosia Jones was a 19th-century poet, entrepreneur, and inventor who found inspiration in some unlikely places. By Christine Ro.
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The heroine Atalanta
In ancient Greek mythology, there is a dearth of stories centred on female heroines. An important exception is the fearless Atalanta. By Josho Brouwers.
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Radio War Nerd Episode 76 — Robert Parry on Lost History and the Death of US Journalism
The War Nerd’s interview with guest, journalist and author Robert Parry, one of the original crusading investigative journalists who broke the Iran-Contra and Contra-cocaine stories in the 80s, the October Surprise— and experienced first-hand the crushing of independent investigative journalism from Reagan through today. Starts at 33:30. (Mar. 20, 2017)
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