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When an Umbrella is More Than Just an Umbrella

When an Umbrella is More Than Just an Umbrella

The Potent Symbolism of Brollies, from Mary Poppins to Harry Potter

By Marion Rankine | November 10, 2017

The Greatest Ever Account of Polar Exploration

The Greatest Ever Account of Polar Exploration

On the Apsley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World

By Francis Spufford | November 10, 2017

Alan Bennett: The Time I Saw T.S. Eliot on a Train Platform

Alan Bennett: The Time I Saw T.S. Eliot on a Train Platform

The Legendary Playwright on His Brush with the Great Poet

By Alan Bennett | November 10, 2017

Jennifer Tseng and Idra Novey on Place, Language, and the Problem of Nostalgia

Jennifer Tseng and Idra Novey on Place, Language, and the Problem of Nostalgia

In Conversation with the Winner of the Rose Metal Press Chapbook Prize

By Literary Hub | November 10, 2017

Why Insidious Racism is Much Harder to Navigate

Why Insidious Racism is Much Harder to Navigate

You Come to Expect it, But You Can Never Come to Accept It

By Reni Eddo-Lodge | November 10, 2017

A Holy Terror, A Common Scold, and the First Feminist Blogger

A Holy Terror, A Common Scold, and the First Feminist Blogger

On the Trial of Anne Royall, Godmother to the Muckrakers

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"I can’t disguise the fact that I enjoy making these pictures"

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By Christopher Grobe | November 9, 2017

Read Anne Sexton's Response to Her Worst-Ever Review

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Esquire is my enemy as you know."">"Dickey at Esquire is my enemy as you know."

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All the Letters I'll Never Send

All the Letters I'll Never Send

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Martinis=Mean. Wine=Wise. A <em>New Yorker</em> Critic's Guide to Conversation

Martinis=Mean. Wine=Wise. A New Yorker Critic's Guide to Conversation

Anne Fadiman on Her Wine-Loving Father, Clifton

By Anne Fadiman | November 9, 2017

Eduardo Galeano: Why I Became a Writer

Eduardo Galeano: Why I Became a Writer

The Late, Great Uruguayan Speaks of the Sea to Those Who Will Never See It

By Eduardo Galeano | November 9, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Jesmyn Ward

Meet National Book Award Finalist Jesmyn Ward

The author of Sing, Unburied, Sing on Prince, Faulkner, and writing exercises

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