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    On Beauty and Its Opposite: Writing Toward Aesthetic Force 

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    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  July 18, 2025

    Surrendering Logic: On Using Magical Realism to Explore Climate Grief

    Emily Buchanan Rethinks Our Relationship with the Planet in Life and Art

     
    By Emily Buchanan  July 18, 2025

    Chloe Michelle Howarth on How to End a Piece of Writing

    “After the last page, it’s as much their story as it is mine.”

     
    By Chloe Michelle Howarth  July 18, 2025

    Hala Alyan on Diaspora, the Limits of Healing, and Gaza as the Conscience of the World

    The Author of “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home” in Conversation With Sahar Delijani

     
    By Sahar Delijani  July 17, 2025

    Flashes of Brilliance: The 19th-Century Innovations That Shaped Modern Photography

    Anika Burgess on Daguerreotypes, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Darkroom Dangers

     
    By Anika Burgess  July 17, 2025

    Give It All Away? On the Literature of Effective Altruism

    Ben Brooks Recommends Dave Eggers, Neel Mukherjee, Ann Napolitano and More

     
    By Ben Brooks  July 17, 2025