20 Favorite Children’s Books from 20 Years of The Marginalian

20 Favorite Books from 20 Years of The Marginalian

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The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds: Margaret Wise Brown’s Lost Masterpiece about Mortality and the Meaning of Life, Newly Illustrated

Cornell’s Real Crisis Is Irrationalism, Not Rape

Brazil in Yet Another End-of-the-World Election

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63 Years Ago This Week, Félicette Became the First Cat in Space

Justice Department Will Investigate Conditions at D.C. Jail After Years of Reports of Filth and Neglect

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3 Reasons to Cancel This Year's 3.6 Percent Social Security Boost

This lizard’s ‘great escape’ was frozen in amber for 99 million years

Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains

The End of Oak Street Is a Nasty, Effective Exercise in Dino Terror

The ominous ‘fire clouds’ or ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ seen in France for the first time

How Art Invented Humanity