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Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

Rich Benjamin on Daniel Fignolé, Papa Doc Duvalier, and the Kidnapping That Changed His Family

By Rich Benjamin | February 13, 2025

A Fantasy of Domesticity: Why We’re Drawn to the False Promise of the Tradwife

A Fantasy of Domesticity: Why We’re Drawn to the False Promise of the Tradwife

Larissa Pham on Baking, Community and Navigating Societal Expectations of Heteronormativity

By Larissa Pham | February 12, 2025

Secrets of the Deep South: In Search of Hidden Family and Collective History in Georgia

Secrets of the Deep South: In Search of Hidden Family and Collective History in Georgia

David Levering Lewis on the Eternal Questions of Race and Power Surrounding the American National Narrative

By David Levering Lewis | February 12, 2025

From Community Organizer to Novelist: Alejandro Heredia Finds a Balance Between Art and Activism

From Community Organizer to Novelist: Alejandro Heredia Finds a Balance Between Art and Activism

“Fiction offers us a way of looking at people’s interior and interconnected lives that... holds space for contradiction.”

By Alejandro Heredia | February 12, 2025

After the Fall: Hanif Kureishi on Trauma, Recovery and What It Means to Be a Writer

After the Fall: Hanif Kureishi on Trauma, Recovery and What It Means to Be a Writer

“I am determined to keep writing, it has never mattered to me more.”

By Hanif Kureishi | February 11, 2025

What to read if you're finally ready to loud quit your job.

What to read if you're finally ready to loud quit your job.

By Brittany Allen | February 10, 2025

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

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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

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

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

Mark Rowlands on the Value of Appreciating Daily Life's Small Yet Significant Routines

By Mark Rowlands | January 28, 2025

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