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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

Yes, I’ve Been Selling My Book<br> on Dating Apps

Yes, I’ve Been Selling My Book
on Dating Apps

Chloé Caldwell on the Unexpected Yet Rewarding Literary World of Hinge

By Chloé Caldwell | February 10, 2025

Lidia Yuknavitch on Finding the Words to Convey Unfathomable Loss

Lidia Yuknavitch on Finding the Words to Convey Unfathomable Loss

“I do what I do know how to do. I throw them into stories; I watch them move and I can walk again.”

By Lidia Yuknavitch | February 10, 2025

Snapshot of a Self: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on Walking the World in a Shifting Body and Gender

Snapshot of a Self: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on Walking the World in a Shifting Body and Gender

From the Anthology “Snapshots: An Album of Essay and Image”

By Alex Marzano-Lesnevich | February 10, 2025

“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

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

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

By Allegra Goodman | February 4, 2025

Love Books? You Still Might Suffer From Bibliophobia

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

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

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

“He was a Peter Pan, the puer aeternus. I was abject in my longing for him.”

By Edmund White | January 28, 2025

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

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

Jay Nicorvo on Separating Fact From Perception While Writing a True Crime Memoir

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.”

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All in the Family: Considering Television’s Orphan Plot

All in the Family: Considering Television’s Orphan Plot

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