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Was George Eliot Wrong to Think Books Could Make People Better?

“I Know You Understand.” A Letter Across Time from Celia Paul to Fellow Artist Gwen John

Diving Into the “Uncanny Despair” of the Cruise Ship Narrative

Just How Depressing is Good Morning, Midnight?

Writing a Novel About a Half-Remembered Place, with the Help of Google Street View

“Eat, Then Write!” Notes From Over a Decade of Restaurant Criticism

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“James Baldwin writes down to nobody.” Read Langston Hughes’ 1958 Review of Notes of a Native Son

From Tragedy to Farce: On the Changing Story of Facebook

“Complete Attention to Two Things at Once.” On the Women Who Rewrote the Motherhood Plot

Rachel Krantz on Using the Tools of Immersion Journalism in Her Own Life

“They Have to Eat and Pay Their Bills.” Sarah Yurch on Resignations in the Publishing Industry

Has the Second World War Ended Yet?

On Sigmund Freud and the “Dream Space” of the Hebrew Bible

Toni Bentley on George Balanchine, the Man Who Loved Women

On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

Illustrating Patricia Highsmith’s Literary Career

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