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On Finding the Book That Returns You to Your Body

On Finding the Book That Returns You to Your Body

Dodie Bellamy Reads Paula Modersohn-Becker

By Dodie Bellamy | October 20, 2021

Rebecca Solnit on the Myriad Meanings of the Rose

Rebecca Solnit on the Myriad Meanings of the Rose

“Flowers are powerful, and all human beings lead lives intertwined with them.”

By Rebecca Solnit | October 19, 2021

How Suzanne Valadon Reclaimed Her Image By Painting Herself Naked

How Suzanne Valadon Reclaimed Her Image By Painting Herself Naked

Jennifer Higgie on the Remarkable Life of a 19th-Century Model-Turned-Artist

By Jennifer Higgie | October 15, 2021

“You Only Write if You Have To.“ On W.G. Sebald’s Life and Work

“You Only Write if You Have To.“ On W.G. Sebald’s Life and Work

Carole Angier Considers How History Shaped Sebald as a Writer

By Carole Angier | October 14, 2021

The Unearthly Glamour of Swans: On the Origins of Truman Capote’s Unpublished, Scathing Roman à Clef

The Unearthly Glamour of Swans: On the Origins of Truman Capote’s Unpublished, Scathing Roman à Clef

Laurence Leamer Looks at Capote’s Fascination with Fabulously Rich Women

By Laurence Leamer | October 13, 2021

William Sites on Sun Ra’s Proto-Afrofuturism and Birmingham Upbringing

William Sites on Sun Ra’s Proto-Afrofuturism and Birmingham Upbringing

This Week from the Big Table Podcast with JC Gabel

By Big Table | October 12, 2021

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Why Did It Take Scientists So Long to Fully Understand Genetics and Mendel’s Laws?

By Howard Markel | October 8, 2021

Jan Swafford and Robert Levin on Mozart’s Infectious Genius

By Open Source | October 8, 2021

How the Word “Landscape” Helped Change Americans' Relationship to Nature

By Tyler Green | October 7, 2021

Nadifa Mohamed on the Long, Strange Journey of Her Uncle Kettle

Nadifa Mohamed on the Long, Strange Journey of Her Uncle Kettle

“My sense of belonging to Hargeisa, the city of my birth but not his, has dissipated in his absence.”

By Nadifa Mohamed | October 4, 2021

On Constancia de la Mora and the Plight of Writers in Exile

On Constancia de la Mora and the Plight of Writers in Exile

Soledad Fox Maura on Rediscovering the Fascinating Story of Her Distant Relative

By Soledad Fox Maura | October 4, 2021

A Ghost in His Own Life: Colm Tóibín on the Great Thomas Mann

A Ghost in His Own Life: Colm Tóibín on the Great Thomas Mann

This Week on the Radio Open Source Podcast

By Open Source | October 1, 2021

How to Deal with Rejection (and Get Revenge) Like Edgar Allan Poe

How to Deal with Rejection (and Get Revenge) Like Edgar Allan Poe

Catherine Baab-Muguira on Doubling Down on Your Ambitions

By Catherine Baab-Muguira | September 30, 2021

Frances Hodgson Burnett Really Loved Gardens—Even Secret Ones

Frances Hodgson Burnett Really Loved Gardens—Even Secret Ones

“As long as you have a garden you have a future.”

By Marta McDowell | September 29, 2021

A World Outside Time: Pico Iyer on the Deep Pleasure of Handel’s Chorale Music

A World Outside Time: Pico Iyer on the Deep Pleasure of Handel’s Chorale Music

“What so moves me—literally transports me—is the way he blends ceremony with emotion.”

By Pico Iyer | September 29, 2021

Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies

Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies

Featuring Joy Harjo, Winfred Rembert, Dawn Turner, and more

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