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On Beauty and Its Opposite: Writing Toward Aesthetic Force 

On Beauty and Its Opposite: Writing Toward Aesthetic Force 

Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on the Importance of the Singular Image

By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | July 18, 2025

Surrendering Logic: On Using Magical Realism to Explore Climate Grief

Surrendering Logic: On Using Magical Realism to Explore Climate Grief

Emily Buchanan Rethinks Our Relationship with the Planet in Life and Art

By Emily Buchanan | July 18, 2025

Chloe Michelle Howarth on How to End a Piece of Writing

Chloe Michelle Howarth on How to End a Piece of Writing

“After the last page, it’s as much their story as it is mine.”

By Chloe Michelle Howarth | July 18, 2025

The Queer Relationship That Powered Rachel Carson’s Nature Writing

The Queer Relationship That Powered Rachel Carson’s Nature Writing

Lida Maxwell on Dorothy Freeman, “Silent Spring,” and Rejecting Heteronormativity

By Lida Maxwell | July 18, 2025

Hala Alyan on Diaspora, the Limits of Healing, and Gaza as the Conscience of the World

Hala Alyan on Diaspora, the Limits of Healing, and Gaza as the Conscience of the World

The Author of “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home” in Conversation With Sahar Delijani

By Sahar Delijani | July 17, 2025

Flashes of Brilliance: The 19th-Century Innovations That Shaped Modern Photography

Flashes of Brilliance: The 19th-Century Innovations That Shaped Modern Photography

Anika Burgess on Daguerreotypes, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Darkroom Dangers

By Anika Burgess | July 17, 2025

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Give It All Away? On the Literature of Effective Altruism

By Ben Brooks | July 17, 2025

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Ed Park on An Oral History of Atlantis

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Muscle Beach: Surfing with Bonnie Tsui

Muscle Beach: Surfing with Bonnie Tsui

Mickie Meinhardt Profiles the Author of “On Muscle,” on a Surfboard

By Mickie Meinhardt | July 16, 2025

With Love, Dad: On Finally Meeting My Father, the Novelist Austin Clarke

With Love, Dad: On Finally Meeting My Father, the Novelist Austin Clarke

Darcy Ballantyne on the Long Process of Getting to Know an Enigmatic Father

By Darcy Ballantyne | July 16, 2025

How Belle Époque Paris Captured the Hearts of American Travelers and Artists

How Belle Époque Paris Captured the Hearts of American Travelers and Artists

Jennifer Dasal on the French Capital's 19th-Century Architectural and Cultural Revival

By Jennifer Dasal | July 16, 2025

Fail More, Fail Better: On Writing a Novel Without Knowing or Planning Anything

Fail More, Fail Better: On Writing a Novel Without Knowing or Planning Anything

How Issa Quincy Delights in the Tension of Drafting Through Uncertainty

By Issa Quincy | July 16, 2025

Haunted Household Objects: What the Material World Can Teach Us About Ourselves

Haunted Household Objects: What the Material World Can Teach Us About Ourselves

Katherine Larson on the False Binary Between Humans and Their Surroundings

By Katherine Larson | July 16, 2025

Patricia J. Williams on Martha S. Jones's <em>The Trouble of Color</em>

Patricia J. Williams on Martha S. Jones's The Trouble of Color

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In From the Margins: On Letting the Roma Narrate Their Own Story

In From the Margins: On Letting the Roma Narrate Their Own Story

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