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    Dreaming in English of Dreaming in Kashmiri: What You Can Only Express in One Language

    By Priyanka Mattoo  June 18, 2024
    Spirituality

    How a Young Harriet Tubman Found Solace in Syncretic Religion

    By Tiya Miles  June 18, 2024
    Spirituality

    Finding What Works: Alex DiFrancesco on Transness and Spirituality

    By Alex DiFrancesco  June 18, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Morgan Talty on Rejecting “Exoticized Foreknowledge”

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    The History of Literature

    Nicholson Baker on Finding His Likeness

    By History of Literature  June 18, 2024
    Singer Songwriters

    How Joni Mitchell Pioneered Her Own Form of Artistic Genius

    By Ann Powers  June 17, 2024
    Sexuality

    Francine Prose on the Unfinished Sexual Revolution of the 1970s

    By Francine Prose  June 17, 2024
    Historical Fiction

    In the Beginning… Why Every Novel Needs an Origin Story

    By Patrick Nathan  June 17, 2024
    Beauty

    How Colorism Impacts Black Women’s Physical and Mental Health

    By Layal Liverpool  June 17, 2024
    Queer Literature

    Winning the Culture War Against Queer Kids’ Books

    By Michael Leali  June 17, 2024
    On Memoir

    The Limitations of Autobiography: Jill Ciment on Continually Revising the Past

    By Michelle Hart  June 17, 2024
    Adolescence

    Going to “Girl Church.” 5 Books that Explore Female Friendship and Adolescence

    By Maggie Nye  June 17, 2024
    Write-minded

    Garth Risk Hallberg on The Big Novel

    By Write-minded   June 17, 2024
    First Draft

    Stacey D’Erasmo on Why We Keep Making Art

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 17, 2024
    Magazines

    The Art of Hanging Out: On the Golden Age of the Celebrity Profile

    By Alex Belth  June 14, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Want to Call Out My Friend For Using AI in Her Newsletter: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  June 14, 2024
    Queer Characters

    Let Them Be Morally Flawed: In Defense of Queer Villains in Stories

    By John Copenhaver  June 14, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  June 14, 2024
    Rereadings

    In Praise of the Domestic Sensualist: Laurie Colwin at 80

    By Mia Manzulli  June 14, 2024
    The Great Outdoors

    What a Young John Muir Learned In the Wisconsin Wilderness

    By Amanda Bellows  June 14, 2024
    Blackness

    How Beyoncé’s “Formation” Embodies the Ethos of Black Womanhood

    By Catherine Joy White  June 14, 2024
    Missed Connections

    Byron and Borgia: A Meditation on an Impossible Encounter

    By Scarlett Sabet  June 14, 2024
    Humor

    How to Win The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest

    By Lawrence Wood  June 13, 2024
    American Politics

    “Historical Fanfiction.” The Deceptive, Dangerous Simplicity of Originalism in American Politics

    By Madiba K. Dennie  June 13, 2024
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