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Living with a Skinhead, While Living in My Brown Skin
As an Indonesian adoptee in Sweden, I was alarmed when my new stepbrother started dabbling in white supremacy. I didn’t realize how far it had gone…
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Anna Grundström
Shout Out: Whose Writing Are You Thankful For?
As those of us in the U.S. celebrate Thanksgiving this week, we want to pause for a second and ask: Who is the writing hero you’re most thankful for?
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How to Write a Hidden History Story That Makes Readers Feel Like They Were There
Award-winning author Steven Beschloss tells us how he researched and wrote the riveting nonfiction book about Lee Harvey Oswald, “The Gunman and His…
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Brendan Spiegel
A Whaleship Full of Cannibals (Who Happen to Be My Family)
My parents love the tale of how our ancestors’ whaling ship capsized, turning the crew into cannibals. As an environmental reporter, there’s no story I…
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Melissa Cronin
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The Notorious Reign of the Black Bordello Queen
She spent 46 years a slave. Then Madam Priscilla Henry built a brothel business so successful she earned a life-changing fortune—and scores of enemies…
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Lyndsey Ellis
Jannie Duncan: “Beautiful Human” or Fugitive Killer?
She was imprisoned for murdering her husband, then escaped and assumed a new identity. Her adoring friends and employers had no idea.
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David Howard
The Killer Doctor, the Swirling Fire, and the World’s Most Haunted Building
This block in Brazil has been home to one of the deadliest skyscraper disasters in history, a doctor with a murderous secret, and—some say—a curse that…
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Ana Franco

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Living with a Skinhead, While Living in My Brown Skin
As an Indonesian adoptee in Sweden, I was alarmed when my new stepbrother started dabbling in white supremacy. I didn’t realize how far it had gone…
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Anna Grundström
A Whaleship Full of Cannibals (Who Happen to Be My Family)
My parents love the tale of how our ancestors’ whaling ship capsized, turning the crew into cannibals. As an environmental reporter, there’s no story I…
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Melissa Cronin
The Three Car Crashes That Changed My Life
My alcoholic mother, pot-dealing father, and my own PTSD combined to send my life speeding dangerously downhill. It took an unexpected U-turn for me to…
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Stephanie Land

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