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The Rise of Arthur Ashe: Tennis Star, Civil Rights Activist

The Rise of Arthur Ashe: Tennis Star, Civil Rights Activist

"I finally stopped trying to be part of white society."

By Raymond Arsenault | September 26, 2018

How the Great Lorraine Hansberry Tried To Make Sense of it All

How the Great Lorraine Hansberry Tried To Make Sense of it All

On an Important American Writer, About Whom We Know Far Too Little

By Imani Perry | September 18, 2018

Hell Week: On Inner City Football in the Wake of Ferguson

Hell Week: On Inner City Football in the Wake of Ferguson

“Today is when we find out who’s a football player.”

By Albert Samaha | September 17, 2018

When English and Computer Code Both Feel Like Foreign Languages

When English and Computer Code Both Feel Like Foreign Languages

"I am Ill at Ease in a Room of People Speaking Quickly and Fluidly"

By David Auerbach | August 31, 2018

Javier Marías on the Pain of Drifting Apart from Old Friends

Javier Marías on the Pain of Drifting Apart from Old Friends

"When and Why Did We Stop Seeing Each Other? I Simply Don't Know"

By Javier Marías | August 30, 2018

On the Birth of Princess Margaret and the Rise of Astrology as We Know It

On the Birth of Princess Margaret and the Rise of Astrology as We Know It

The Royal Family Was Really Into Horoscopes

By Craig Brown | August 6, 2018

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The Man Who Put Premature Babies in Carnival Sideshows

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When Wilde Met Whitman

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By David Lynch | July 10, 2018

He Holds Up a Lantern for the Rest of Us: Ann Patchett on Donald Hall

He Holds Up a Lantern for the Rest of Us: Ann Patchett on Donald Hall

Remembering the Late, Great Poet, 1928 - 2018

By Ann Patchett | June 25, 2018

Reading Through the Notes for Peter Matthiessen's Would-Be Autobiography

Reading Through the Notes for Peter Matthiessen's Would-Be Autobiography

Jeff Wheelwright on the Life and Underrated Writing of His Adventuring Uncle

By Jeff Wheelwright | June 21, 2018

The All-Too Human Cost of Appalachia's Fracking Boom

The All-Too Human Cost of Appalachia's Fracking Boom

America's Answer to Energy Scarcity Has Always Been to Dig Deeper

By Eliza Griswold | June 19, 2018

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Taking Sci-Fi Inspiration from Nineteen Eighty-Four and Metropolis

By Jason Heller | June 19, 2018

The Young Anarchist and Future <em>Joy of Sex</em> Author Who Sparred with George Orwell Over World War II

The Young Anarchist and Future Joy of Sex Author Who Sparred with George Orwell Over World War II

"Alex Comfort Reveals Orwell as a More Problematic, but Also More Human, Figure"

By Eric Laursen | June 11, 2018

The Photographer Who Recorded Assad's Torture

The Photographer Who Recorded Assad's Torture

How One Man Risked His Life For Justice in Syria

By Garance Le Caisne | June 8, 2018

The Treacherous Start to Mary and Percy Shelley's Marriage

The Treacherous Start to Mary and Percy Shelley's Marriage

Anxious, Impatient, and Seasick While Sailing Through a Storm

By Fiona Sampson | May 31, 2018

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