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“We’ve Been Hiding Our Buttocks For Too Long.” Josephine Baker Arrives in Paris, 1925

“We’ve Been Hiding Our Buttocks For Too Long.” Josephine Baker Arrives in Paris, 1925

The Iconic French-American Performer Recounts Her First Days in the City of Lights

By Josephine Baker | February 7, 2025

Carving Our Canoes: On the Value of Building a Communal Life in an Atomized World

Carving Our Canoes: On the Value of Building a Communal Life in an Atomized World

Tyson Yunkaporta Considers the Possibilities and Limits of Indigenous Knowledge For Relieving Contemporary Malaise

By Tyson Yunkaporta | February 6, 2025

Allegra Goodman on the (Almost) Life-Saving Power of Audiobooks

Allegra Goodman on the (Almost) Life-Saving Power of Audiobooks

“Books are merciful this way. They fill your mind with other people’s questions and dilemmas.”

By Allegra Goodman | February 4, 2025

Love Books? You Still Might Suffer From Bibliophobia

Love Books? You Still Might Suffer From Bibliophobia

Sarah Chihaya on the Real Consequences of Fearing Books

By Sarah Chihaya | February 4, 2025

What We Lost In the Fire: On the Stories We Tell To Fill Life’s Empty Spaces

What We Lost In the Fire: On the Stories We Tell To Fill Life’s Empty Spaces

For Lea Carpenter, “There is a third story, the one told in the second person. This is the story you tell yourself.”

By Lea Carpenter | January 30, 2025

More Than a Muse: Kay Sohini on Discovering Literary New York

More Than a Muse: Kay Sohini on Discovering Literary New York

From Her Graphic Memoir “This Beautiful, Ridiculous City”

By Kay Sohini | January 29, 2025

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What We Can Learn From a Dog’s Way of Looking At the World

By Mark Rowlands | January 28, 2025

Sex, Love and Longing in 1970s Gay New York: Edmund White on His Past Lovers

By Edmund White | January 28, 2025

Why Absolute Truth is Still Worth Pursuing In a Narrative-Driven World

By Jay Nicorvo | January 27, 2025

“When I Quit Drinking I Quit Writing.” Matthew Nienow on Stumbling Back Into Poetic Vulnerability

“When I Quit Drinking I Quit Writing.” Matthew Nienow on Stumbling Back Into Poetic Vulnerability

“I wrote into that darkness because that kind of honesty was the only thing that felt right.”

By Matthew Nienow | January 22, 2025

All in the Family: Considering Television’s Orphan Plot

All in the Family: Considering Television’s Orphan Plot

Kristen Martin on the Superficial Portrayals of Orphanhood on 90s TV

By Kristen Martin | January 22, 2025

Pico Iyer on What We Can Learn From the Monastic Life

Pico Iyer on What We Can Learn From the Monastic Life

In Praise of Solitude, Contemplation and Connection

By Pico Iyer | January 21, 2025

Canine Charms: Markus Zusak on Rescuing a Dog and Naming It After a Character in His Fiction

Canine Charms: Markus Zusak on Rescuing a Dog and Naming It After a Character in His Fiction

How Reuben the Rottweiler Shepherd Mix Jumped from Page to Life

By Markus Zusak | January 21, 2025

Remembering Renay: On Growing Up With an Unforgettable Mother

Remembering Renay: On Growing Up With an Unforgettable Mother

With Humor and Love, Andy Corren Revisits a Childhood of Poverty, Paperbacks, and Poetry

By Andy Corren | January 16, 2025

A Childhood Under Siege: What It Means to Grow Up as a Black Boy in Suburban America

A Childhood Under Siege: What It Means to Grow Up as a Black Boy in Suburban America

Lee Hawkins: “Slowly, it began to register that being Black rarely meant freedom.”

By Lee Hawkins | January 16, 2025

The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

Carolyn Kellogg on Realizing the Value of the Irreplaceable

By Carolyn Kellogg | January 15, 2025

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