Why I Wrote My Memoir, a Letter to My Transgender Daughter, Under a Pen Name

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“The protective force field is, in the end, imaginary.”

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Back to School for Everyone: Writers and the World with Viet Thanh Nguyen

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On Writing as Commitment to Both Art and Politics

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Stephanie Foo on Writing—and Selling—Trauma

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A.M. Homes on Following the Money in Her Fiction

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The Personal Crisis That Transformed FDR Into a Historic Leader

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