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From the Margins to the Mainstream: How the Synthesizer Conquered American Music

From the Margins to the Mainstream: How the Synthesizer Conquered American Music

David Hajdu Explores the Creative and Technical Evolution of a Versatile Electric Instrument

By David Hajdu | February 14, 2025

From “Ted” to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes Edward Gorey Sent to His Pen Pal

From “Ted” to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes Edward Gorey Sent to His Pen Pal

A Selection of Gorey's Colorful, Curious Letters to Tom Fitzharris

By Literary Hub | February 14, 2025

Beautiful and Innovative: In Praise of Artistic Experimentation in Literature

Beautiful and Innovative: In Praise of Artistic Experimentation in Literature

Sam Mills Makes the Case For Marrying the Literary and the Visual in Fiction and Nonfiction

By Sam Mills | February 14, 2025

Roisín O’Donnell on Developing a Short Story into a Novel

Roisín O’Donnell on Developing a Short Story into a Novel

By Roisín O'Donnell | February 14, 2025

How Systemic Racism Leads to a Lifetime of Self-Imposed Isolation For Black Americans

How Systemic Racism Leads to a Lifetime of Self-Imposed Isolation For Black Americans

Chad Sanders on Learning to Process the Societal and Psychological Effects of Anti-Blackness

By Chad Sanders | February 14, 2025

“Joined To All The Living There Is Hope,” a Poem by Jonathan Fink

“Joined To All The Living There Is Hope,” a Poem by Jonathan Fink

From the Collection “Don't Do It, We Love You, My Heart”

By Jonathan Fink | February 14, 2025

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Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

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Antifascist, Feminist, Timeless: On Alba de Céspedes’s <em>There’s No Turning Back</em>

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Getting Rid of Book Blurbs? Easier Said Than Done

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Maris Kreizman on One of Publishing’s Eternal Inevitabilities

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Sonya Walger Is Reading Now, and Next

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Journalists Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker on Trump and the Tech Oligarchs

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In Conversation with Whitney Terrell on Fiction/Non/Fiction

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Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

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A Fantasy of Domesticity: Why We’re Drawn to the False Promise of the Tradwife

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