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Stories Too Awful to Believe: Adania Shibli on Bombings in Ramallah

Stories Too Awful to Believe: Adania Shibli on Bombings in Ramallah

“When I try to think of what I could say or write, I feel numb, knowing that the words that will pour out of me will be useless.”

By Adania Shibli | October 18, 2023

Write Who You Love: J. Ryan Stradal on Memorializing His Mother Through Fiction

Write Who You Love: J. Ryan Stradal on Memorializing His Mother Through Fiction

"Over time I learned how to stare into that loss, a loss that brought more pain and longing than I’d ever felt, and pull her back through it."

By J. Ryan Stradal | October 16, 2023

Stories About Myself: The Narratives and Realities of my Childhood in an Urban Commune

Stories About Myself: The Narratives and Realities of my Childhood in an Urban Commune

Pamela Newton Reflects on Alexander Stille's The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

By Pamela Newton | October 16, 2023

Road to Avonlea: Amanda Parrish Morgan on The Transportive Intimacy of Reading and Long Drives

Road to Avonlea: Amanda Parrish Morgan on The Transportive Intimacy of Reading and Long Drives

"The car, the book, the trip—all means of getting somewhere unknown together."

By Amanda Parrish Morgan | October 13, 2023

Nobel Prize Laureate Katalin Karikó on Her Hungarian Childhood

Nobel Prize Laureate Katalin Karikó on Her Hungarian Childhood

“I understand now that this local ‘soap cooker lady’ was the first biochemist I ever met.”

By Katalin Karikó | October 12, 2023

We All Touch Ourselves: Fancy Feast on Beauty, Pleasure and Sexual Self-Actualization

We All Touch Ourselves: Fancy Feast on Beauty, Pleasure and Sexual Self-Actualization

"I want to offer comfort and be comforted by the company."

By Fancy Feast | October 12, 2023

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"I had created something—something that I’d honestly thought of as maybe a little brilliant but also maybe a little crazy."

By Pauls Toutonghi | October 5, 2023

On the Difficulty of Narrating the Audiobook for Your Own Memoir

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Freda Love Smith Admits, "It's Kind of Hard to Read"

By Freda Love Smith | October 4, 2023

Nathan Hill on the Biggest Surprise of His Literary Career

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This Week on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | September 29, 2023

Confessions of a Chronically Online Janeite

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Rhonda Watts Dives into the World of AustenTok

By Rhonda Watts | September 28, 2023

Searching For Agnes Martin

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"Why does one artist fall in love with another’s art?"

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Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

"At the very moment that you take on the greatest act of caring, you discover how powerless you are."

By Molly Lynch | September 25, 2023

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