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This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness...

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Dan SavageSkipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exis...

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a ...

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Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a ...

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When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins suc...

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Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.