H elen Cam (1885-1968), the first woman to be elected to a chair at Harvard, was a formidable English medievalist. Unusually ...

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April 1, 2024 • David Bezmozgis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Likes," by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Bezmozgis is a filmmaker and writer ...