Why Testimonial and Confessional Writing Remains Necessary in the Post-#MeToo Era

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Jamie Hood In Defense of the Earnest, the Sentimental, and Those Who Still Need to Put Their Trauma Into Words

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Graydon Carter on <br>The Golden Age of Magazines

Graydon Carter on
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Terry McDonell Talks to Legendary Editor About His New Book

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Fergus McIntosh: “One Wonders”

Fergus McIntosh: “One Wonders”

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

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Towards a New “Bad” Feminist Canon: Why Feminism Remains Essential

Towards a New “Bad” Feminist Canon: Why Feminism Remains Essential

Roxane Gay on the Importance of Expanding and Complicating Our Understanding of Contemporary Feminist Thought

By Roxane Gay | March 25, 2025

Two Ways To Tell the Same Truth: Navigating the Boundary Between Fact and Fiction

Two Ways To Tell the Same Truth: Navigating the Boundary Between Fact and Fiction

Binnie Kirshenbaum: “To write fiction takes patience and fortitude to fend off the assumptions that our novels are memoirs.”

By Binnie Kirshenbaum | March 25, 2025

The Power of Absence: How Loss Can Help Fuel a Creative Life

The Power of Absence: How Loss Can Help Fuel a Creative Life

Sanam Mahloudji: “If I didn’t feel an absence or a sense of loss, there would be no need to write.”

By Sanam Mahloudji | March 25, 2025

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Farid Matuk on Mirroring, Poetic Artifice, and Complicating Sensuality in Verse

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