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My Return to Tehran: On Family, Restlessness, and Revolution

My Return to Tehran: On Family, Restlessness, and Revolution

Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi and the Women Who Shaped Her Life

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi | September 27, 2018

Teaching the Literature of Mad Women

Teaching the Literature of Mad Women

On Gendered Notions of Mental Illness, and Who "Deserves" to Be Depressed

By Sarah Fawn Montgomery | September 24, 2018

'I Started to Cry.' Sally Field on Bringing <em>Norma Rae</em> to Cannes

'I Started to Cry.' Sally Field on Bringing Norma Rae to Cannes

"The people below rose to their feet, turned to us, and cheered."

By Sally Field | September 24, 2018

Remembering My Lola By Teaching Myself How to Cook

Remembering My Lola By Teaching Myself How to Cook

She Taught Me to Take Whatever I Had and Make a Home Out of It

By Melissa R. Sipin | September 21, 2018

The Mysterious Case of a Mongolian Murder That Might Have Been...

The Mysterious Case of a Mongolian Murder That Might Have Been...

Leonid Yuzefovich Follows a Footnote Across 100 Years and 1,000 Miles

By Leonid Yuzefovich | September 20, 2018

At the Mogadishu Book Fair, Literature Is Hope

At the Mogadishu Book Fair, Literature Is Hope

Writer Ahmed Ismail Yusuf on Going Home After Decades Away

By Ahmed Ismail Yusuf | September 17, 2018

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Traveling To Spain With My Father's Ashes

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What Would You Do Suddenly Adrift in a Lifeboat in the North Atlantic?

By Brian Murphy | September 7, 2018

From an Army Camp to the Champs-Élysées: Bill Cunningham's Paris

By Bill Cunningham | September 4, 2018

When English and Computer Code Both Feel Like Foreign Languages

When English and Computer Code Both Feel Like Foreign Languages

"I am Ill at Ease in a Room of People Speaking Quickly and Fluidly"

By David Auerbach | August 31, 2018

Javier Marías on the Pain of Drifting Apart from Old Friends

Javier Marías on the Pain of Drifting Apart from Old Friends

"When and Why Did We Stop Seeing Each Other? I Simply Don't Know"

By Javier Marías | August 30, 2018

When the Government Tried (and Failed) to Come for a Japanese-American Journalist

When the Government Tried (and Failed) to Come for a Japanese-American Journalist

From the Late James Omura's Memoir of Internment and Repression

By James Matsumoto Omura and Arthur Hansen | August 29, 2018

Vanessa Hua: On the Banned Chinese Novel My Father Loved in His Youth

Vanessa Hua: On the Banned Chinese Novel My Father Loved in His Youth

Inside the Rollicking, Political World of The Water Margin

By Vanessa Hua | August 27, 2018

Adrienne Rich: It Is Hard to Write About My Own Mother

Adrienne Rich: It Is Hard to Write About My Own Mother

On the Deep Complexity of the Mother-Daughter Relationship

By Adrienne Rich | August 24, 2018

Claire Tomalin on Hiring (and Dating) a Young Martin Amis

Claire Tomalin on Hiring (and Dating) a Young Martin Amis

"I Knew Martin Could Take Over My Job Easily and Do it Very Well"

By Claire Tomalin | August 21, 2018

Yes, But What Does Karl Ove Knausgaard Think of Ice Cream?

Yes, But What Does Karl Ove Knausgaard Think of Ice Cream?

Next Up, Kittens and Cake

By Karl Ove Knausgaard | August 21, 2018

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