Invisible Women: On the Victorian Custom of Cutting Mothers Out of Portraits

Invisible Women: On the Victorian Custom of Cutting Mothers Out of Portraits

Ellen O’Connell Whittet Considers the Photographic Evidence of Maternal Erasure

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet | May 10, 2024

Sitting at the Cool Table: Christina Cooke and Marissa Higgins on the (Supposed) Renaissance of Queer Lit

Sitting at the Cool Table: Christina Cooke and Marissa Higgins on the (Supposed) Renaissance of Queer Lit

The Authors of “Broughtupsy” and “A Good Happy Girl” in Conversation

By Christina Cooke | May 10, 2024

Jerrod Carmichael on Using Art to (Try to) Solve Life's Problems

Jerrod Carmichael on Using Art to (Try to) Solve Life's Problems

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | May 9, 2024

Claire Messud on Blurring Family History and Fiction

Claire Messud on Blurring Family History and Fiction

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 9, 2024

A Different Kind of Dad Book: Lucas Mann on Fatherhood, Writing, and the Essay as an Act of Care

A Different Kind of Dad Book: Lucas Mann on Fatherhood, Writing, and the Essay as an Act of Care

The Author of “Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances” in Talks to Brian Gresko

By Brian Gresko | May 9, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Can a novel be both blunt and exquisite?”

By Book Marks | May 9, 2024

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  • The Things We Never Say
  • John of John
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  • Backtalker: An American Memoir
  • Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
  • Glyph
  • The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving in Ceausescu's Romania
  • Dog Days

How the Beloved Memory of Dead Pets Can Help Guide the Writing Process

By Simon Van Booy | May 9, 2024

Why You Should Keep a Garden Journal (Even if You Don’t Have a Garden)

By Fiona Warnick | May 9, 2024

John James Audubon Had More Than a Little Help With Those Bird Paintings

By Kenn Kaufman | May 9, 2024

How Pregnancy Forever Transforms the Body and the Mind

How Pregnancy Forever Transforms the Body and the Mind

Lucy Jones on the Eternal Biological Bonds Between Mothers and Children

By Lucy Jones | May 9, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Wendy Chen is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Wendy Chen is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Julián Delgado Lopera, Bo-Young Kim, Brandon Shimoda, and Others

By Diana Arterian | May 9, 2024

Sophie Ratcliffe on Loss and Love

Sophie Ratcliffe on Loss and Love

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | May 9, 2024

Soil As Archive: On the Work of Recognizing Alternate Forms of Sentience

Soil As Archive: On the Work of Recognizing Alternate Forms of Sentience

Angie Sijun Lou Considers the Many Conceptions of Time

By Angie Sijun Lou | May 8, 2024

Punished for Pregnancy: On the Radical Power of <em>The Millstone</em> by Margaret Drabble in a Post-Roe World

Punished for Pregnancy: On the Radical Power of The Millstone by Margaret Drabble in a Post-Roe World

Carrie Mullins Recommends a 1960s British Novel for Present-Day America

By Carrie Mullins | May 8, 2024

Why Are So Many Mexican Novels Set in Cantinas?

Why Are So Many Mexican Novels Set in Cantinas?

Nicolás Medina Mora Considers the Role of the Neighborhood Watering Hole in Mexican Literature and Culture

By Nicolás Medina Mora | May 8, 2024

“Intentional Neglect.” On the Creation of Nationalized Child Protection in Victorian England

“Intentional Neglect.” On the Creation of Nationalized Child Protection in Victorian England

Heather Montgomery Explores the Early Days of the NSPCC

By Heather Montgomery | May 8, 2024

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