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On Joan Didion and the Art of Looking Back

Maggie McKinley Rereads One of America’s Great Nostalgists
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Are Elder Millennial Women in America Ok? A Historical Accounting

Sarah Flocken on What It Means to Be Trapped in Endless Cycles of Belief and Cynicism
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When George Sand Hit the Town in Men’s Clothes

Fiona Sampson on the Pseudonymous Writer’s Breaking of Binaries and Boundaries
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The Losses that Carry Us: A Tribute to Marjane Satrapi

Fatemeh Shams on Loss, Veil, Exile, and the Passing of a Literary Giant

My Mother’s Voice:
Messages From Tehran

By Shohreh Laici

On One of America’s Great Conspiracy Theorists (and His Yankees vs. Cowboys Theory of History)

By Andrew McKenzie-McHarg

For a Historian, the Facts of Any Given Life Disappear the Moment They Occur

By Thomas S. Mullaney

The Crops That Created America (Mostly Came From Africa)

By Michael Carter Jr.

Jessica M. Goldstein on the Inherent Optimism of Time Travel

By Jessica M. Goldstein

How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Overlooked Story Collection Helped Me Write My LA Novel

By Krista Diamond

On Integrating Unions and Finding “Good White People” in Midcentury Minnesota

By Justin Ellis

“The Forest is the Therapist.” On the Art of Noticing

By Richard Louv

Nine Books That Showcase Queer Life in the Arab World

By Addie Leak

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Sorry, Chicago Manual of Style: I’m Not Going to Stop Capitalizing the Word “Earth”

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How Wolverine: Weapon X Reinvented the Classic Marvel Tale

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On the Speed of Animals, Airborne and Earthbound

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On Waking Up As an American During the Fall of the Soviet Union

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This Week in Literary History: Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” is Published

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The Best True Crime Books of the Month: June 2026

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Follow Awe: Deb Olin Unferth on Writing Speculative Fiction

By Deb Olin Unferth

How to Write a Novel in 33 Days

By Catriona Silvey

How to Put an End to Problem of American Gerontocracy (in the Nicest Possible Way)

By Samuel Moyn

“Don’t Let Nobody Ever Call You That.” Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor on Finding Confidence in Her Blackness

By Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

What is the Future of Ethnic Studies?

By Aaron Boehmer

On Waking Up As an American During the Fall of the Soviet Union

By Jamison Firestone

Mail Between Heaven and Earth: On Japan’s Post Office For Letters to the Dead

By Sally Hayden

What is the Future of Ethnic Studies?

By Aaron Boehmer