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The Sanctity of a Journal: On Private Writing in the Age of Public Content

The Sanctity of a Journal: On Private Writing in the Age of Public Content

“What stories do we owe each other—ourselves?”

By Rachel Schwartzmann | January 6, 2023

Why Travel Writing is a Form of Memoir and How Covid Has Changed How We See the World

Why Travel Writing is a Form of Memoir and How Covid Has Changed How We See the World

Pico Iyer in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | January 6, 2023

On War, Fatherhood, and the Half-Life of Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Fission

On War, Fatherhood, and the Half-Life of Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Fission

Will Cathcart Travels the Road From Kherson to a Delivery Room in Tbilisi

By Will Cathcart | January 5, 2023

How Mussolini's Legacy Lives on in Both the Public and Private Spheres

How Mussolini's Legacy Lives on in Both the Public and Private Spheres

Andrea Bajani on Fascism and Family in Modern Italy

By Andrea Bajani | January 5, 2023

On Translation and the (Temporary) Inheritance of Trauma

On Translation and the (Temporary) Inheritance of Trauma

Yardenne Greenspan Considers What It Means to Truly Inhabit an Author’s Work

By Yardenne Greenspan | January 4, 2023

Searching For Home with Samuel Beckett

Searching For Home with Samuel Beckett

"It’s possible that carrying around cracks in the first foundation... helps a person accept a cosmos flawed at its core."

By Ken Babstock | January 4, 2023

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“My Ithaca Burned Down, Too.” A Letter from a Teenage Joycean and Ukrainian Refugee

“My Ithaca Burned Down, Too.” A Letter from a Teenage Joycean and Ukrainian Refugee

“I’m Ruslana from Severodonetsk, a now disappearing city.”

By José Vergara | January 3, 2023

The Forty Year Kiss: Nickolas Butler on Why People-Watching Is Writing

The Forty Year Kiss: Nickolas Butler on Why People-Watching Is Writing

“All novelists are spies or should be.”

By Nickolas Butler | December 23, 2022

Jonathan Lear on Learning from Linguistic Example on the Playground

Jonathan Lear on Learning from Linguistic Example on the Playground

“It is not that there are no answers; it is rather that the answers never close the book on the questions.”

By Jonathan Lear | December 23, 2022

“I Didn’t Ask to Be Here.” Or: How Do We Find Value in This Life?

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Nick Riggle on Ocean Vuong and the Mysterious Beauty of Being Alive

By Nick Riggle | December 16, 2022

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How Community Organizers and Business Leaders Came Together to Improve Bedford-Stuyvesant

How Community Organizers and Business Leaders Came Together to Improve Bedford-Stuyvesant

Franklin A. Thomas on the Complex Alliance Between Activists and the Political Establishment in 1960s New York City

By Franklin A. Thomas | December 15, 2022

Moriel Rothman-Zecher on the Magic of Writing at Sunrise

Moriel Rothman-Zecher on the Magic of Writing at Sunrise

“It is my job, simply, to open my eyes, and place my fingers on the keyboard and then, let go.”

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher | December 14, 2022

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