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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

The Man Who Put Premature Babies in Carnival Sideshows

The Man Who Put Premature Babies in Carnival Sideshows

Martin Couney May Not Have Had Medical Credentials, But He Saved Thousands

By Dawn Raffel | August 3, 2018

When Wilde Met Whitman

When Wilde Met Whitman

As He Told a Friend Years Later, "The Kiss of Walt Whitman is Still on My Lips"

By Michèle Mendelssohn | July 16, 2018

David Lynch on the Dark Side of Fifties Suburbia

David Lynch on the Dark Side of Fifties Suburbia

Bombs, Bullets, and Amputated Feet, Obviously

By David Lynch | July 10, 2018

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

By Ann Patchett | June 25, 2018

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

By Jeff Wheelwright | June 21, 2018

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

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

Where Hemingway Went to Write, After Partying in Venice

Where Hemingway Went to Write, After Partying in Venice

We Could All Use a Quiet, Rustic Island...

By Andrea Di Robilant | May 29, 2018

On the Boyhood Classmates Who Drove Proust to Write

On the Boyhood Classmates Who Drove Proust to Write

First He Was Transfixed, Then He Was... Disappointed

By Caroline Weber | May 24, 2018

Chasing an Impossible Storm

Chasing an Impossible Storm

Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras's Last Ride

By Brantley Hargrove | May 23, 2018

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