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“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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Mark Rowlands
| January 28, 2025
Sex, Love and Longing in 1970s Gay New York: Edmund White on His Past Lovers
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Edmund White
| January 28, 2025
Why Absolute Truth is Still Worth Pursuing In a Narrative-Driven World
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Jay Nicorvo
| January 27, 2025
“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.”
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Matthew Nienow
| January 22, 2025
All in the Family: Considering Television’s Orphan Plot
Kristen Martin on the Superficial Portrayals of Orphanhood on 90s TV
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Kristen Martin
| January 22, 2025
Pico Iyer on What We Can Learn From the Monastic Life
In Praise of Solitude, Contemplation and Connection
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Pico Iyer
| January 21, 2025
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
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Markus Zusak
| January 21, 2025
Remembering Renay: On Growing Up With an Unforgettable Mother
With Humor and Love, Andy Corren Revisits a Childhood of Poverty, Paperbacks, and Poetry
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Andy Corren
| January 16, 2025
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.”
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Lee Hawkins
| January 16, 2025
The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles
Carolyn Kellogg on Realizing the Value of the Irreplaceable
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Carolyn Kellogg
| January 15, 2025
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Bestsellers to Blockbusters: Stephen King Reflects on the Adaptations of His Work
October 23, 2025
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Stephen King
Reader, Show Us Who Did It: Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper Invite You to Solve a Murder
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John B. Valeri
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