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    Meetings

    A Life-Changing Afternoon in Paris With Edmund White

    By Michael Carroll  June 28, 2019
    The Literary Life

    Julia Phillips on Writing a Russian Story in an American Voice

    By The Literary Life  June 28, 2019
    Eye Candy

    The 12 Best Book Covers of June

    By Emily Temple  June 27, 2019
    Literary History

    Paul Auster on the Time He Met Samuel Beckett

    By Paul Auster  June 27, 2019
    In This Essay I Will...

    Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don’t Read Too Much.

    By Antoine Compagnon  June 27, 2019
    Math

    On the Beauty of Math

    By Haim Shapira  June 27, 2019
    SCOTUS

    Irin Carmon and Jay Wexler Talk Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, and More

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 27, 2019
    Gun violence

    Julianne Moore on Gun Violence and the Women Fighting to Stop It

    By Julianne Moore  June 27, 2019
    Interview with a Bookstore

    Interview with a Bookstore: Bluestockings

    By Interview with a Bookstore  June 27, 2019
    Podcasts

    Lauren Mechling on Trying to Make it in Media

    By The Maris Review  June 27, 2019
    Political Literature

    We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell’s 1984

    By Dorian Lynskey  June 27, 2019
    Gay Icons

    On Myra Breckinridge and the Life of Gore Vidal

    By Camille Paglia  June 27, 2019
    Reading Lists

    So Many Damn Books at
    One Book, One New York

    By So Many Damn Books  June 27, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Introduction to Activism:
    A Reading List

    By Shannon Watts  June 27, 2019
    Motherhood

    Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

    By Alix Ohlin  June 26, 2019
    Freeman's

    I Read One Hundred Books
    Just to Write One

    By Heather O'Neill  June 26, 2019
    The Internet

    Confronting My Well Educated, Father-of-Six, White Supremacist Troll

    By Ginger Gorman  June 26, 2019
    Math

    Catherine Chung on Letting the Muse Tell Her Own Story

    By Reading Women  June 26, 2019
    Fathers and Daughters

    How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand
    Her Father

    By Jacquelyn Ardam  June 26, 2019
    Technology

    The Rocket Scientist Who Had to Elude the FBI Before He Could Escape Earth

    By Fraser MacDonald  June 26, 2019
    Criticism

    How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 26, 2019
    Feminism

    The Memoir I Never Wanted
    to Write

    By Chavisa Woods  June 26, 2019
    Dance

    Remembering Merce Cunningham and Radical Dance in Postwar Paris

    By Marianne Preger-Simon  June 26, 2019
    Sexual Assault

    Karen Stefano on the Aftermath of Sexual Assault

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  June 26, 2019
    Literary History

    The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

    By Jack Parlett  June 25, 2019
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