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Ibtihaj Muhammad: Finding a Home in the (White) World of Fencing

Ibtihaj Muhammad: Finding a Home in the (White) World of Fencing

"Everything around me seemed like a dream. Fencers that looked like me."

By Ibtihaj Muhammad | July 24, 2018

How Someone Else's Writer's Block Helped Me Write My Novel

How Someone Else's Writer's Block Helped Me Write My Novel

Robert Siegel on Getting the Details Just Right

By Robert Anthony Siegel | July 17, 2018

If Watergate Happened Now, It Would Stay a Secret

If Watergate Happened Now, It Would Stay a Secret

Sy Hersh Reveals a 1970s Washington That Seemed to Contain... Decency?

By Seymour M. Hersh | July 13, 2018

David Lynch on the Dark Side of Fifties Suburbia

David Lynch on the Dark Side of Fifties Suburbia

Bombs, Bullets, and Amputated Feet, Obviously

By David Lynch | July 10, 2018

Samantha Hunt: Ghosts of Brooklyn Past

Samantha Hunt: Ghosts of Brooklyn Past

"Why is it so hard to know a person we see everyday?"

By Samantha Hunt | July 10, 2018

On Falling in Love with the Language I've Spoken My Entire Life

On Falling in Love with the Language I've Spoken My Entire Life

Lucy Tan Rediscovers Chinese Through the Fiction of Eileen Chang

By Lucy Tan | July 9, 2018

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Peter Mayle Knew How to Handle the Trolls (Back When They Wrote Letters)

By Peter Mayle | July 6, 2018

How Time in the Woods Helped Me Reset My Life

By Elle Nash | June 28, 2018

Edmund White: Reading is a Passport to the World

By Edmund White | June 27, 2018

My Dinner with Denis Johnson

My Dinner with Denis Johnson

Rick Bass Cooks Dinner for His Neighbor and Talks About Writing

By Rick Bass | June 25, 2018

He Holds Up a Lantern for the Rest of Us: Ann Patchett on Donald Hall

He Holds Up a Lantern for the Rest of Us: Ann Patchett on Donald Hall

Remembering the Late, Great Poet, 1928 - 2018

By Ann Patchett | June 25, 2018

If These Are the End Times, Don't Waste Your Time Texting

If These Are the End Times, Don't Waste Your Time Texting

Massoud Hayoun on Fear, Bad Omens, and His Grandmother's Funeral

By Massoud Hayoun | June 22, 2018

Reading Through the Notes for Peter Matthiessen's Would-Be Autobiography

Reading Through the Notes for Peter Matthiessen's Would-Be Autobiography

Jeff Wheelwright on the Life and Underrated Writing of His Adventuring Uncle

By Jeff Wheelwright | June 21, 2018

What Happens When Your Tenant Won't Stop Renovating Your House?

What Happens When Your Tenant Won't Stop Renovating Your House?

Vikki Warner on Handling Sticky Situations as a Landlord

By Vikki Warner | June 19, 2018

Porochista Khakpour on Learning to Own the Discomfort of the Body

Porochista Khakpour on Learning to Own the Discomfort of the Body

"To Find a Home in My Body is to Tell a Story That Doesn’t Exist"

By Porochista Khakpour | June 15, 2018

How My Father Finally Made Peace with My Career as a Writer

How My Father Finally Made Peace with My Career as a Writer

"I Couldn't Be Happy and Be What He Wanted"

By Susan Shapiro | June 15, 2018

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