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Writing While Becoming Two: How Motherhood Influenced My Debut Novel

Grace Walker: “Two lives, two minds, combining. It’s the idea that shaped my writing, and now, in a quieter way, my days.”
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Jen Percy on Self-Preservation, Playing Dead, and Writing About Gendered Violence

Sarah Viren Talks to the author of Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani

The Former Chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College
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So, Do Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism?

Kristen R. Ghodsee on the Tangle of Sex, Money, and Women’s Independence

The Power of Illusion: Olivia Laing on Creating a Thriller Inspired by 1970s Italian Cinema

By Olivia Laing

On David Graeber’s Ideas About the Structural Stupidity of Bureaucracy

By Stuart Jeffries

On the Early Days of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Rise to Power

By Mikhail Zygar

More Than James Brown’s Drummer: Clyde Stubblefield, An Unsung Pioneer of R&B

By John Lingan

Emma Darwin on Writing About Her Family and Finding Inspiration in Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder

By Emma Darwin

The Striking Similarities Between Aphorisms and Poetry

By James Geary

Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists

By Emily Temple

Olivia Laing on Fictionalizing the Murder of Pier Paulo Pasolini

By Jane Ciabattari

What Does It Mean to be Human? (According to Philosopher Alexandre Kojève)

By Boris Groys

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The History of the Relentless, Decades-Long Siege on the People of Gaza

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The Best Psychological Thrillers of November 2025

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The Power of Illusion: Olivia Laing on Creating a Thriller Inspired by 1970s Italian Cinema

By Olivia Laing

Writing While Becoming Two: How Motherhood Influenced My Debut Novel

By Grace Walker

Emma Darwin on Writing About Her Family and Finding Inspiration in Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder

By Emma Darwin

On David Graeber’s Ideas About the Structural Stupidity of Bureaucracy

By Stuart Jeffries

On the Early Days of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Rise to Power

By Mikhail Zygar

Five novels to read if you’re fascinated by the Black bourgeoisie.

By Brittany Allen

On the Early Days of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Rise to Power

By Mikhail Zygar

Emma Darwin on Writing About Her Family and Finding Inspiration in Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder

By Emma Darwin

What Does It Mean to be Human? (According to Philosopher Alexandre Kojève)

By Boris Groys