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Marion Winik on Marrying a Gay Man, Telling Secrets, and Writing Fiction Versus Nonfiction

“I did my best to present Tony in a way that would make readers fall in love with him just as I had, and forgive his mistakes, just as I did.”

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On Trying to Write About Disordered Eating in the Age of Millennial Therapy Culture

On Trying to Write About Disordered Eating in the Age of Millennial Therapy Culture

Anna Rollins Wonders If Mothers Get Too Much of the Blame

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The 29 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2025

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Why Joan Didion Hated the Police

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Scott Saul on a Little-Known Essay by California’s Famed Chronicler of the Counterculture

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Colm Tóibín on What It Means to Return to an Idea 20 Years Later

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