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Looking for God in Teddy Ruxpin: Brandi Carlile on Faith and Music

Looking for God in Teddy Ruxpin: Brandi Carlile on Faith and Music

The Singer-Songwriter Remembers the Existential Dread of an 80s Childhood

By Brandi Carlile | April 29, 2021

Lil’ Kim is publishing a memoir.

Lil’ Kim is publishing a memoir.

By Walker Caplan | April 28, 2021

The Man Who Set Out to Kill Segregation... or Be Killed by It

The Man Who Set Out to Kill Segregation... or Be Killed by It

Charles Person Remembers Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the Movement in Birmingham

By Charles Person | April 28, 2021

Comfort in Quarantine: On Going Deeper Into the Solitude of Books

Comfort in Quarantine: On Going Deeper Into the Solitude of Books

Jaime Fuller Reads Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and Marian Engel’s Bear

By Jaime Fuller | April 27, 2021

Light the Fire and Fan the Flames: Surviving China’s Cultural Revolution

Light the Fire and Fan the Flames: Surviving China’s Cultural Revolution

Kent Wong on a Childhood Amid Unstable and Dangerous Times

By Kent Wong | April 27, 2021

Complicated Comfort: Finding Unlikely Escape in the Restoration of a Childhood Dollhouse

Complicated Comfort: Finding Unlikely Escape in the Restoration of a Childhood Dollhouse

Kate Guadagnino on the Solace of Neglected Objects

By Kate Guadagnino | April 26, 2021

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How To Tell Readers Who You Are Without Telling Them Who You Are

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The Weight of Memory: On Motherhood and the Ghosts of Racial Violence

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Fatima Bhutto on Channeling the Fearlessness of Malcolm X

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Mass Graves and 21st-Century Slavery: On the Dangerous Plight of Migrants

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Emmanuel Mbolela Considers Our Ongoing Global Humanitarian Crisis

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Rereading <em>The Phantom Tollbooth</em> in This Year of Our Pandemic Doldrums

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Kate Washington on Norton Juster’s Classic

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