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What I Learned From Pretending to Be a Pretentious Lit Bro for 5 Years

What I Learned From Pretending to Be a Pretentious Lit Bro for 5 Years

Dana Schwartz, aka @GuyInYourMFA, on Namedropping, the Canon, and More

By Dana Schwartz | November 7, 2019

Big Data vs. Big Dada: Writing Poetry on Demand at a New Orleans Tech Convention

Big Data vs. Big Dada: Writing Poetry on Demand at a New Orleans Tech Convention

Benjamin Aleshire on (Briefly) Going Corporate as a Poet-For-Hire

By Benjamin Aleshire | November 7, 2019

Exotic Pets, Wild Blood, and the Search for Human-Animal Connection

Exotic Pets, Wild Blood, and the Search for Human-Animal Connection

What Happens When Richard Louv Visits a Reptile Show

By Richard Louv | November 7, 2019

Inside the Republican Party's Last-Ditch Scramble to Save Their House Majority

Inside the Republican Party's Last-Ditch Scramble to Save Their House Majority

Anne Nelson Looks Behind the Curtain of the 2018 Midterm Elections

By Anne Nelson | November 7, 2019

On the Radically Compassionate Films of Ai Weiwei and Agnès Varda

On the Radically Compassionate Films of Ai Weiwei and Agnès Varda

Curtis White Makes a Call for Counterculture

By Curtis White | November 7, 2019

The Reporter Who Went Undercover at an Asylum

The Reporter Who Went Undercover at an Asylum

Nellie Bly Committed Herself to the Infamous Blackwell Island Asylum Just to Get the Story

By Susannah Cahalan | November 7, 2019

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Susannah Cahalan on How We Diagnose Mental Illness

By Just the Right Book | November 7, 2019

Cathleen Schine on the Power Dynamics of Language

By The Maris Review | November 7, 2019

Literary Disco: It's Time to Play Some Games!

By Literary Disco | November 7, 2019

Mariana Enriquez on the Radical, Subversive Power of Silvina Ocampo

Mariana Enriquez on the Radical, Subversive Power of Silvina Ocampo

with the originality of Clarice Lispector."">"The world is ready for her blend of insane Angela Carter
with the originality of Clarice Lispector."

By Mariana Enriquez | November 6, 2019

Ok Billionaire: Why Do the Opinions of 600 Americans Get So Much Airtime?

Ok Billionaire: Why Do the Opinions of 600 Americans Get So Much Airtime?

Rebecca Solnit on the Self-Importance (and Self-Pity!) of the Very Rich

By Rebecca Solnit | November 6, 2019

Trump Nation: Dress Rehearsal<br> for a Civil War

Trump Nation: Dress Rehearsal
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Larry Siems Revisits America, October 2016

By Larry Siems | November 6, 2019

What Comes Before Woke? On the History of Sleep as a Form of Protest

What Comes Before Woke? On the History of Sleep as a Form of Protest

From Vietnam Die-Ins to Occupied Parks, Stillness as Dissent

By Franny Nudelman | November 6, 2019

The Gay Activists Who Fought the American Psychiatric Establishment

The Gay Activists Who Fought the American Psychiatric Establishment

Mo Rocca on the Struggle to Depathologize Homosexuality

By Mo Rocca | November 6, 2019

The Surreal Absurdity of Preparing for a Mother's Death

The Surreal Absurdity of Preparing for a Mother's Death

Tiffany Midge on "Spitting Death Right in the Eye"

By Tiffany Midge | November 6, 2019

When a Family Measures Time By Its Losses

When a Family Measures Time By Its Losses

Marco Rafalà on the Disappearance of His Uncle Salvatore

By Marco Rafalà | November 6, 2019

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