10 Short Stories with Great Dialogue That Aren’t “Hills Like White Elephants”

10 Short Stories with Great Dialogue That Aren’t “Hills Like White Elephants”

Do You Believe in Life After Hemingway?

By Emily Temple | August 25, 2021

On Finally Being Old Enough<br> to Love Proust

On Finally Being Old Enough
to Love Proust

Adam Bonislawski Finds Peace in Entropy at the Heart of a Literary Classic

By Adam Bonislawski | August 25, 2021

We All Know Columbus Didn’t Discover America—So How Did He Become a Symbol of Its Founding?

We All Know Columbus Didn’t Discover America—So How Did He Become a Symbol of Its Founding?

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on the Erasure of This Continent’s Original Inhabitants

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | August 25, 2021

Eula Biss on the Essay’s Amenability to Ambivalence

Eula Biss on the Essay’s Amenability to Ambivalence

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | August 25, 2021

How Does the Biological Heart Have to Do With Our Emotions?

How Does the Biological Heart Have to Do With Our Emotions?

Reinhard Friedl on the Relationship Between the Body’s Mechanisms and Its Feelings

By Reinhard Friedl | August 25, 2021

The Life and Death of Robert Capa: How a Woman Invented the First Great War Photographer

The Life and Death of Robert Capa: How a Woman Invented the First Great War Photographer

Giles Tremlett on Gerda Taro, Who Documented the Spanish Civil War and Died in Action

By Giles Tremlett | August 25, 2021

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“Beside the Golden Door Prologue”

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Why is Yves Saint Laurent’s “Sardine Dress” So Compelling?

Why is Yves Saint Laurent’s “Sardine Dress” So Compelling?

Alison Hawthorne Deming on the Art and Inspiration of an Iconic Dress

By Alison Hawthorne Deming | August 25, 2021

Casey Schwartz on Adderall and the Modern Landscape of Attention

Casey Schwartz on Adderall and the Modern Landscape of Attention

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 25, 2021

David Sumpter on the Mathematics of Winning at Life

David Sumpter on the Mathematics of Winning at Life

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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<em>Footnotes</em> by Caseen Gaines, Read by the Author

Footnotes by Caseen Gaines, Read by the Author

The History of Shuffle Along, the First All-Black Musical

By Behind the Mic | August 25, 2021

Meron Hadero on Writing Ethiopia and the Persistence of Hope

Meron Hadero on Writing Ethiopia and the Persistence of Hope

This Week from the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | August 25, 2021

Charlie Jane Anders and Becky Chambers on the Power of Storytelling (and Tea!)

Charlie Jane Anders and Becky Chambers on the Power of Storytelling (and Tea!)

This Week from Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | August 25, 2021

I Bark, Therefore I Am: Of Consciousness and Robot Dogs

I Bark, Therefore I Am: Of Consciousness and Robot Dogs

Meghan O’Gieblyn Considers Issues of Mind, Matter, and Soul

By Meghan O'Gieblyn | August 24, 2021

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