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Gertrude Emerson, hailed as a globe-trotting adventurer in US, made India her home in 20th century

She was a ‘gifted writer and a scholar’. But what set her apart was her ability to interpret the East for the West when prejudice was rampant.

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New Books, by Claire Messud

“Domestic Pig Sus scrofa domestica,” by Henry Horenstein, from the series Animalia © The artist Gustave Flaubert famously wanted to write “a book about nothing,” sustained only by “the internal force of its style.” Are pigs “nothing,” one might wonder? The premise of Ellyn Gaydos’s debut memoir Pig Years (Knopf, $27) may seem unpromising, at least […]

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This flamboyant NY Jew changed Black legal history

Accused of rape by white women, nearly all 9 Black 'Scottsboro Boys' were sentenced to death - until Samuel Leibowitz provided new evidence-based representation

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Neighborhood Narcs: The Story of the American Protective League

During World War I, the U.S. government deputized the entire nation to root out German spies, but the amateur agents did more harm than good.

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Remembering Forgotten Foods | The Saturday Evening Post

Lefse, fondue, egg creams, and ambrosia: Gay Haubner remembers the foods from her childhood that have since gone the way of the automat.

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