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What's the Point of Plants that Make Us Feel High?

What's the Point of Plants that Make Us Feel High?

Philosophers and Scientists (and Stoners) Have
Long Confronted the Question

By David Schneider | March 5, 2020

Frida Kahlo Was a Captivating Subject for Photographers

Frida Kahlo Was a Captivating Subject for Photographers

The Artist Took Photography as Seriously as Painting

By Celia Stahr | March 5, 2020

Writing and Confronting Terror in the Form of a Color

Writing and Confronting Terror in the Form of a Color

Theodore Wheeler's Notes on Blue

By Theodore Wheeler | March 5, 2020

Kate Murphy: When Was the Last Time You Really Listened to Someone?

Kate Murphy: When Was the Last Time You Really Listened to Someone?

In Conversation with Roxanne Coady
on the Just the Right Book Podcast

By Just the Right Book | March 5, 2020

Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

On Rose Pastor and the Activists of the University Settlement Society

By Adam Hochschild | March 5, 2020

<em>Behind the Mic</em>: On Best Autobiography/Memoir at the 2020 Audie Awards

Behind the Mic: On Best Autobiography/Memoir at the 2020 Audie Awards

Michele Cobb and Jo Reed Discuss Who Took Home the Audie Award for Autobiography/Memoir

By Behind the Mic | March 5, 2020

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Lilly Dancyger, Leslie Jamison, Darcy Lockman, and Shelly Oria on Female Rage

By LIC Reading Series | March 5, 2020

On the Reverie and Detachment of the American Road Trip

By David Farrier | March 4, 2020

How to Pull Off a 250-Mile Protest March? Grit (And a Little Bit of Harry Belafonte)

By Linda Sarsour | March 4, 2020

A Mother's Survivor's Guilt in the Wake of Sandy Hook

A Mother's Survivor's Guilt in the Wake of Sandy Hook

Carol Ann Davis on the Impossible Task of Moving Beyond Tragedy

By Carol Ann Davis | March 4, 2020

The 75 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of <em>On the Road</em>

The 75 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of On the Road

"Like reading Mapquest directions for several hundred pages."

By Emily Temple | March 4, 2020

How J. Edgar Hoover Used the Power of Libraries for Evil

How J. Edgar Hoover Used the Power of Libraries for Evil

Tracking Adversaries, Hiding Evidence, and Other No
Good Dirty Deeds

By Alana Mohamed | March 4, 2020

Illustrating the Domestic Bliss of Alice B. Toklas and<br> Gertrude Stein

Illustrating the Domestic Bliss of Alice B. Toklas and
Gertrude Stein

Maira Kalman on Her Illustrated Reissue of
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

By Maira Kalman | March 4, 2020

In the Big Arena, Searching for the Heart of College Basketball

In the Big Arena, Searching for the Heart of College Basketball

Has March Madness Lost Something Essential About the Sport?

By John Feinstein | March 4, 2020

Emily Nemens: Being an Editor is Like Being a Baseball Scout

Emily Nemens: Being an Editor is Like Being a Baseball Scout

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | March 4, 2020

When Sharon Dodua Otoo, Relatively New to Writing in German, Won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize

When Sharon Dodua Otoo, Relatively New to Writing in German, Won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize

In Conversation with Idra Novey About German Breakfast Culture,
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By Idra Novey | March 4, 2020

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