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JILL LEPORE

Some of the essays in your new anthology are quite personal. In one, you write about having to hide your motherhood duties as a scholar and about having a miscarriage. What made you decide to reveal such personal moments?

That essay—which is the title of the collection—I wrote on the 20th anniversary of the death of my best friend, who died while

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