“She Is Not Me.” What Reading to Your Children Teaches You About Yourself

“She Is Not Me.” What Reading to Your Children Teaches You About Yourself

Olivia A. Cole on Representation, Parenthood and the Power of Children’s Literature

By Olivia A. Cole | November 14, 2024

They’re Screening an Adaptation of My Novel in an Israeli Settlement, So I’m Boycotting It

They’re Screening an Adaptation of My Novel in an Israeli Settlement, So I’m Boycotting It

Mirza Waheed: “Boycotts are not acts designed to foster exclusion or hatred; they are, in fact, statements of intent.”

By Mirza Waheed | November 13, 2024

Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires: How <em>The Great Gatsby</em> Changed the Landscape of New York City

Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires: How The Great Gatsby Changed the Landscape of New York City

John Marsh on Robert Moses, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Culture of Environmental Waste

By John Marsh | November 13, 2024

A Gesture Larger Than Death: On Bill T. Jones’s AIDS Elegy “Still/Here” at 30

A Gesture Larger Than Death: On Bill T. Jones’s AIDS Elegy “Still/Here” at 30

Jen Benka Considers Art in the Face of Cataclysm

By Jen Benka | November 13, 2024

A Love Song to the Philippines: The Revolutionary Power of Jessica Hagedorn’s <em>Dogeaters</em>

A Love Song to the Philippines: The Revolutionary Power of Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters

Patrick Rosal’s Introduction to a Formative Filipino American Novel

By Patrick Rosal | November 13, 2024

The Mystery of Wallis Simpson’s Visit to Shanghai and Her Search for the Elusive “Hurry-Up” Divorce

The Mystery of Wallis Simpson’s Visit to Shanghai and Her Search for the Elusive “Hurry-Up” Divorce

Paul French Chronicles the Future Duchess of Windsor’s Sojourn in China

By Paul French | November 13, 2024

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Fictionalizing Family: On What’s True and What’s Invented About Our Origins

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Marcia Bjornerud on the Persistence of Past Worlds on Earth

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Witnesses to a Changing World: On the Longevity and Endurance of the Greenland Shark

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Marguerite Sheffer on Crafting a Collection of Century-Spanning Speculative Fiction

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JD Vance Quoted One of Cormac McCarthy’s Most Evil Characters to Make Some Asinine Point

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Ann Patchett on Annotating Her Award-Winning Novel <em>Bel Canto</em> Twenty Years Later

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Memories in the Marsh: A Love Letter to Exploring, Studying, and Creating Art in Nature

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On Understanding and Capturing the Horrors of War and Fascism

On Understanding and Capturing the Horrors of War and Fascism

Julian Zabalbeascoa Explores His Family’s Experience of the Spanish Civil War Through Fiction

By Julian Zabalbeascoa | November 11, 2024

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