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Maggie Nelson on Criticism, Intentionality, and Pain

7 Novels For Living Out Your Cottagecore Fantasies

Following the Paths of the Wild-Walking Women of the Past, from Nan Shepherd to Georgia O’Keeffe

Writing Black Essays in White People’s Houses

Read It and Weep: Margaret Atwood on the Intimidating, Haunting Intellect of Simone de Beauvoir

Lauren Groff and Rebecca Makkai Talk Literary Ethics, the Loneliness of Bodies, and Writerly Friendship

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Alexandra Kleeman on the Artificial Boundary Between the Natural and Man-Made

Commuting with Shylock: (Reluctantly) Revisiting The Merchant of Venice with My 10-Year-Old Son

The In-Between World: On the Mythology of The Famished Road and the Literary Scaffolding of Ben Okri

Crystal Wilkinson on Finding Community Among Affrilachian Poets

Brigette Benkeman on Dora Maar, Surrealist Photographer and Picasso’s “Weeping Woman”

Hilma Wolitzer on the Catharsis of Writing Through Grief

Making a Way Out of No Way: Celebrating the Power of Black Female Relationships in Literature

Interview with an Indie Press: Biblioasis

On the Life and Under-Recognized Work of Margery Latimer, Visionary Modernist Writer

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

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