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In The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Samuel L. Jackson Plays the Role of a Lifetime

“Every hut in our beloved country is on the edge.” Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry by Boris Khersonsky

John Clellon Holmes on the Funeral of His Longtime Friend Jack Kerouac

Edith Wharton on How to Write a Vivid First Line

Bring Back the Vibes of Howards End, You Cowards

On the Centenary of Jack Kerouac’s Birth, Rarely Seen Archival Material from His Publisher

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Austin Kleon Looks Back on the Creation of Steal Like an Artist, Ten Years Later

The More Personal the Joke, the Bigger the Laugh (and More Lessons from a Career in Cartoons)

Malcolm Gladwell on the Future of Audiobooks

EXCLUSIVE CLIP: Olivia Gatwood Reads Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Sonnet IV”

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Ari Ezra Waldman on Big Tech’s Existential Threat to Our Privacy and Liberty

Ten Percent Space Opera, Ninety Percent Family Drama: Mike Chen on Using Sci-Fi to its Fullest Capacity

Tom Sleigh on Translating War Zone Experiences into Poetry

The Unglamorous Life of an Editorial Assistant Struggling with Her Mother’s Mental Deterioration

Best American Male: An Essay About Masculinity. An Essay About Power.

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