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In Praise of Racist Books: Notes of an Immigrant Reader

In Praise of Racist Books: Notes of an Immigrant Reader

Louis Chude-Sokei on the Books that Shaped His Literary Curiosity

By Louis Chude-Sokei | August 2, 2021

Paradise Extended: Searching for My Great-Grandfather’s Grave in a Segregated Cemetery

Paradise Extended: Searching for My Great-Grandfather’s Grave in a Segregated Cemetery

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | August 2, 2021

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on Navigating the Starkly Gendered World of<br> Horseback Riding

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on Navigating the Starkly Gendered World of
Horseback Riding

“I decided that because girl wasn’t a word for me, horse couldn’t be, either.”

By Alex Marzano-Lesnevich | July 29, 2021

Love Affairs with Dead Composers: How Discovering Chopin Saved Mena Suvari

Love Affairs with Dead Composers: How Discovering Chopin Saved Mena Suvari

The American Beauty Actor on the Power of Music and the Challenges of Belonging

By Mena Suvari | July 29, 2021

Ursula Burns on the Dangers of Exceptionalism

Ursula Burns on the Dangers of Exceptionalism

This Week from Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | July 29, 2021

In America, Language Silences You: On Trusting Words When They Fail, Betray, And Redeem

In America, Language Silences You: On Trusting Words When They Fail, Betray, And Redeem

Amanda Choo Quan Considers the Effects of Anxiety and Racism on the Writing Life

By Amanda Choo Quan | July 28, 2021

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Inside the Career of Tuesday Weld, a Hollywood “Poet of Failure”

By Matthew Specktor | July 28, 2021

Read the Winners of This Year’s Insider Prize, Selected by Mitchell S. Jackson

By American Short Fiction | July 28, 2021

The Pleasures of Tsundoku, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Book Piles

By Antoine Wilson | July 28, 2021

How a Doctor-in-Training Learned to Accept Her Stuttering—and Uplift Others

How a Doctor-in-Training Learned to Accept Her Stuttering—and Uplift Others

Leana Wen, MD, on Overcoming and Eventually Embracing Her Speech Disorder

By Dr. Leana Wen | July 27, 2021

Remembering Late Nights With Pedro Gomez, Beloved Baseball Reporter

Remembering Late Nights With Pedro Gomez, Beloved Baseball Reporter

Dave Sheinin on One of the Greats

By Dave Sheinin | July 27, 2021

Tales of a Bright Young Sportswriter at the 1969 NBA Finals

Tales of a Bright Young Sportswriter at the 1969 NBA Finals

Leigh Montville on Covering One of Sport’s Great Rivalries: the Celtics vs. the Lakers

By Leigh Montville | July 26, 2021

Finding the Fault Lines Beneath Auroville’s Utopian Dreams

Finding the Fault Lines Beneath Auroville’s Utopian Dreams

Akash Kapur on the Dangers of Searching for Something That Isn’t There

By Akash Kapur | July 26, 2021

Toward a Syllabus for Modern Grieving

Toward a Syllabus for Modern Grieving

From Yaa Gyasi to Joan Silber Beth Kissileff Finds Consolation in Reading

By Beth Kissileff | July 23, 2021

Reckoning with Family Legacies at an Ohio Drive-Thru Liquor Store

Reckoning with Family Legacies at an Ohio Drive-Thru Liquor Store

Athena Dixon on the Long Reach of Addiction

By Athena Dixon | July 23, 2021

Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama are teaming up on a book.

Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama are teaming up on a book.

By Walker Caplan | July 22, 2021

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