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What Our Relationship With Cats Reveals About Ourselves

What Our Relationship With Cats Reveals About Ourselves

Rebecca van Laer: “If dogs are our servants, cats are our shadows.”

By Rebecca van Laer | September 30, 2025

What Are We Getting Out of Mythology?

What Are We Getting Out of Mythology?

Seamus Sullivan on Honesty and Mercy in Reading Myths

By Seamus Sullivan | September 29, 2025

A Pilgrimage to Monk’s House, Where Virginia Woolf Found a Room of Her Own

A Pilgrimage to Monk’s House, Where Virginia Woolf Found a Room of Her Own

Katie da Cunha Lewin on the Role of Writing Spaces in the Creative Lives of Virginia Woolf and Other Literary Icons

By Katie da Cunha Lewin | September 26, 2025

Against True Crime Sensationalism

Against True Crime Sensationalism

Prison Journalist John J. Lennon on Exploitative Entertainment and Life in Sing Sing

By John J. Lennon | September 24, 2025

Why Drag Queen Story Hour Matters

Why Drag Queen Story Hour Matters

Nina West on How Her Own Love of Reading Led to a Career in Drag and Literature

By Nina West | September 24, 2025

Writing Yourself Into Existence: On Loving Worlds Where We Don’t Belong

Writing Yourself Into Existence: On Loving Worlds Where We Don’t Belong

Abdi Nazemian: "My empathy is big enough to let me love something (or someone) even if they have not pledged allegiance to me..."

By Abdi Nazemian | September 24, 2025

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Sasha Bonét on Black Motherhood, Fragmented Storytelling, and Untangling History

Sasha Bonét on Black Motherhood, Fragmented Storytelling, and Untangling History

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By G'ra Asim | September 16, 2025

Why Are There So Few Books About Mothers and Sons?

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Sara Stridsberg on Reading Omar El Akkad Amidst the Serbian Protests

Sara Stridsberg on Reading Omar El Akkad Amidst the Serbian Protests

“I still take El Akkad’s book with me everywhere, holding it tight as if it can save my soul. It can’t.”

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The Link Between Trauma, Drug Use, and Our Search to Feel Better

The Link Between Trauma, Drug Use, and Our Search to Feel Better

“As capitalism has invented ever more ways to be miserable, so too has it invented ever more specific ways to ease that misery.”

By P.E. Moskowitz | September 11, 2025

Spells, Skepticism, and Surrender: What Happens When the Agent Becomes the Author

Spells, Skepticism, and Surrender: What Happens When the Agent Becomes the Author

Samantha Browning Shea on Breaking Her Own Rules

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Laughing in Hell: How We Tell the Stories of Other Peoples’ Suicides

Laughing in Hell: How We Tell the Stories of Other Peoples’ Suicides

Sarah Adler on Reading Blake Butler in the Wake of Loss

By Sarah Adler | September 8, 2025

Returning to the World of <em>Chocolat</em>, 25 Years Later

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