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Mary Beard: Women and Power

Todd Barry: Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg

Rebekah Sheldon: The Child to Come

John Berger and Selçuk Demirel: Smoke

Roger Wilmut: From Fringe to Flying Circus

Ben Lerner: 10:04

Jonathan Schell: The Fate of the Earth

Samuel Scheffler: Why Worry About Future Generations?

Ted Cohen: Serious Larks

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Sara Varon: New Shoes

Sloane Crosley: I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule: Action versus Contemplation

Alan Lightman: Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

James Richardson: By the Numbers

Eleanor Davis: Why Art?

Galen Strawson: Things That Bother Me