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Triumph and Tragedy: On Being a Mets Fan... and Being a Mankiewicz

“I Would Not Take Prisoners.” Tolstoy’s Case Against Making War Humane

Jai Chakrabarti on How to Get Unstuck While Writing

How the History of German-Jewish Refugee Soldiers During WWII Shaped My Novel

Tolstoy Forever: Brigid Hughes and Yiyun Li on Retweeting a Russian Classic

Maggie Nelson on Criticism, Intentionality, and Pain

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Falling in Love with Instant Anonymity: How I Became a Perpetual Student of LA

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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

Leigh Stein on Archiving the Cultural Moments We Shared During the (Ongoing) Pandemic

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

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

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