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Watch this never-aired ABC television profile of James Baldwin.
By
Walker Caplan
| June 14, 2021
How—and Why—Americans Become Susceptible to the Toxic Allure of Cults
Dr. Kate Gale Talks to Amanda Montell, Author of
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
By
Dr. Kate Gale
| June 14, 2021
The Radical Sensibility Behind the Federal Writers' Project
Scott Borchert on Founding Director Henry Alsberg
By
Scott Borchert
| June 14, 2021
Lawrence Wright Traces the Parallels Between the Black Death and the COVID-19 Pandemic
On 14th-Century Italy, Medieval Medicine, and the Consequences of the Plague
By
Lawrence Wright
| June 11, 2021
Carrie Mae Weems and the Long History of Collective Self-Institutionalization Among Black Radicals
Thomas J. Lax Considers the Artist's Emphasis on Convening
By
Thomas J. Lax
| June 11, 2021
On Maurice Sendak’s birthday, take a look at some of his rare drawings.
By
Walker Caplan
| June 10, 2021
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
“The books are no longer themselves.” Saul Bellow’s prescient takedown of literary criticism.
By
Walker Caplan
| June 10, 2021
On the Cheating Scandal That Nearly Ruined Baseball
By
Andy Martino
| June 10, 2021
Hilary Beard on Racism’s Failure of Imagination
By
Keen On
| June 10, 2021
On the Excoriating Speech Nelson Algren Delivered to College English Students
Colin Asher Guests on the
Big Table
Podcast
By
Big Table
| June 10, 2021
Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac
Aminatta Forna Moves Through a Cultural and Personal History of Sleeplessness
By
Aminatta Forna
| June 9, 2021
Seamus Heaney’s wife is launching a Seamus Heaney-themed walking tour.
By
Walker Caplan
| June 8, 2021
Private Lives, Public Faces: On What’s Revealed by Hannah Arendt’s Archives
Samantha Rose Hill Considers the Importance of Marginalia in the Writing Life
By
Samantha Rose Hill
| June 8, 2021
The Many Fictional Afterlives of Ethel Rosenberg
Anne Sebba Reads the Rosenbergs of Plath, Doctorow, Kushner and More
By
Anne Sebba
| June 8, 2021
The Overwhelming Power of Beauty: Deconstructing Edith Hamilton’s
Mythology
for Modern Times
Kathryn Lofton on Greek and Roman Classics, Scholarship, and Religion
By
Kathryn Lofton
| June 8, 2021
On the Cultural Figure—and Lived Reality—of the Blind Writer
M. Leona Godin Considers Homer, Borges, and the Large Gap Between Metaphorical and Practical
By
M. Leona Godin
| June 7, 2021
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Halle Berry Will Play the President of the United States in
The President is Missing
February 4, 2026
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Olivia Rutigliano
Why Horror Is the Perfect Genre for Processing Trauma
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by
Christina Ferko
The Most Unhinged Women in Fiction (That Marisa Walz Would Still Invite to Brunch)
February 4, 2026
by
Marisa Walz
The Best Reviewed Books of the Month
"Poignant Tender The final line of em The Rest of Our Lives em is by…"