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Meet the anti­authoritarian Original Prometheans.

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Ray Raphael on America’s founding myths.

He wrote cranky Radium Age science fiction parables.

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“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon.”

Celebrating thirteen HiLo Heroes about whom we wrote in 2012.

A scene from DAZED AND CONFUSED (1993)

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Mark Taylor on money and markets

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The longer they played, they happier grew.

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During the endgame, the king comes into his own.

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What the author of The Idler’s Glossary accomplished in 2012.

The social, cultural, and political context of Radium Age sf.

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“The ordinary recreations which we have in winter”

An art gallery of comic-book art gallery details.

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Howard Zinn on US history

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Collect all five 2012 titles while you still can!

UNBORED comes to DUMBO! Today!

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Patrick W. Carey on Orestes Brownson

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“Like a chess board of vert and azure.”

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Tonight at the Harvard Book Store!

A scene from THE DIARY OF A CHAMBER­MAID (1946)

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Sam Lipsyte on success and failure.

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Boston and NY stops on the UNBORED book tour!

A scene from THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)

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U. of Arizona students ask: What is the value of narrative?