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“Auld Lang Syne” in July: Yiyun Li on the Solaces and Limits of Music

“Auld Lang Syne” in July: Yiyun Li on the Solaces and Limits of Music

“Music, in its absolute right to exist, perhaps is not unlike mood, or landscape—external or internal.”

By Yiyun Li | May 3, 2022

Lessons Learned from a Year Listening to the Fictional Octopus in My Head

Lessons Learned from a Year Listening to the Fictional Octopus in My Head

Shelby Van Pelt on an Unlikely Friend and Saying What You Mean

By Shelby Van Pelt | May 3, 2022

How the Small Moments That Haunt Us Can Form the Seeds of a Novel

How the Small Moments That Haunt Us Can Form the Seeds of a Novel

Steve Almond on Writing as a Means of Dealing With Obsession

By Steve Almond | May 3, 2022

A Quiet Reply to a Life Cut Short: After a Profound Loss, How to Honor the Dead

A Quiet Reply to a Life Cut Short: After a Profound Loss, How to Honor the Dead

Elisha Cooper on Coming to Terms with What Killed His Brother

By Elisha Cooper | May 2, 2022

Love is Space: Notes on Marriage and Creativity

Love is Space: Notes on Marriage and Creativity

Andrea Bajani on Writing, Solitude, and Forgiveness

By Andrea Bajani | May 2, 2022

Robert M. Pirsig on the Book He Wrote (And the One He Didn’t)

Robert M. Pirsig on the Book He Wrote (And the One He Didn’t)

“Gradually, I began to discover that I was on to more than I had thought.”

By Robert M. Pirsig and Wendy K. Pirsig | April 29, 2022

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Vaishnavi Patel on Finding Inspiration from the Ramayana

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How Word Puzzles Tickle the Brain and Satisfy the Soul

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A.J. Jacobs on the Joy of Playing With Words

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Danica Roem on Why She Decided to Run for Office

Danica Roem on Why She Decided to Run for Office

“Life can change in an instant.”

By Danica Roem | April 27, 2022

“This Was My Mother’s Nature.” A Trip to Yellowstone, in the Wake of an Alzheimer's Diagnosis

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Steph Jagger on Experiencing an “Infinite Storm of Beauty” with Her Mother

By Steph Jagger | April 27, 2022

There is a bell hooks Book for Every Season of Life

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Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah on the Liberatory Possibilities of Sexual Experience

By Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah | April 27, 2022

“I Know You Understand.” A Letter Across Time from Celia Paul to Fellow Artist Gwen John

“I Know You Understand.” A Letter Across Time from Celia Paul to Fellow Artist Gwen John

"Please help me, Gwen, to work my way through these feelings of panic and fear.”

By Celia Paul | April 26, 2022

Writing a Novel About a Half-Remembered Place, with the Help of Google Street View

Writing a Novel About a Half-Remembered Place, with the Help of Google Street View

Soon Wiley on Virtually Strolling the Streets of Seoul

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