Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Another year in publishing is officially in the books, and as December draws to a ...

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How a narrative-history textbook taught me to read the past and the present. Our governing principles were forged in the heat of partisan strife between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans.

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Erotic fiction gets a bad reputation, and it’s frankly unfair. Just because a work of literature can be a sexual turn-on does not inherently make it less than. Even "smutty" shouldn't have such a ...

The Great American Read was an eight-part series with viewer participation to select America’s favorite novel, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels. It investigated writers’ ...

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