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“At what point does writing about extraordinary circumstances for women become ordinary?”

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Karan Mahajan on Literary Tradition, Trump, and Writing Multiple Points of View

Karan Mahajan on Literary Tradition, Trump, and Writing Multiple Points of View

Anna North in Conversation with the author of The Complex

By Anna North | March 10, 2026

Why Jane Austen Adaptations Just Keep Coming—And We Keep Watching

Why Jane Austen Adaptations Just Keep Coming—And We Keep Watching

Lauren W. Westerfield on Privilege and Money in Austen’s Works

By Lauren W. Westerfield | March 9, 2026

What Being a Professional Athlete Taught Me About Writing—and What It Didn’t

What Being a Professional Athlete Taught Me About Writing—and What It Didn’t

James Hamilton Hibbard on Applying His Cycling Skills to His Writing Career

By James Hibbard | March 9, 2026

Six Essential Books About Birds

Six Essential Books About Birds

Eric Wagner Recommends Adam Nicolson, J.A. Baker, Helen Macdonald, and More

By Eric Wagner | March 9, 2026

Marya Hornbacher on Memoirs That Prevail

Marya Hornbacher on Memoirs That Prevail

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Language as Resistance: Camonghne Felix on the Liberatory Potential of Poetry

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How Writing a Book About Diaries Changed How I Wrote My Own Diary Entries

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Betsy Rubiner on What We Can Learn From Writing in Journals

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Why So Many Women Are Writing About Bears

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Trina Moyles on Challenging a Canon Long Dominated by Men

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Jake Skeets is Reading Now, and Next

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Bret Anthony Johnston on Listening to the Unconscious

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