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Babies Don’t Need to Be Built: Alex Bollen on the Danger of the “Good Mother” Myth
The Author of “Motherdom” Explores Brain Development, Play, and Why Restrictive Moralizing Hurts All Parents
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Alex Bollen
| March 20, 2025
Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Why She Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”
From the Penguin Classics Collection “Twelve Stories by American Women”
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| March 19, 2025
What Kafka’s Hypochondria Reveals About His Literary and Personal Life
Will Rees on the Shared Characteristics Between Health Anxiety and the Writer’s Calling
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Will Rees
| March 12, 2025
Unweaving the Web: On Creating Your Own Narrative of Illness and Health
Sophie Strand Explores the Limitations of Traditional Ideas About Disease, Trauma and Healing
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Sophie Strand
| March 6, 2025
A War Zone Pediatrician on What Comes After the Horrors of a Gaza Emergency Room
Dr. Seema Jilani Reckons with the Hypocrisy of Western Liberal Institutions
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Seema Jilani
| March 5, 2025
Matters of the Heart: On Daily Life With a Defective Yet Vital Organ
Jeffrey L. Kosky: "My heart was defecting—as if it were not really mine—and the defector threatened to tear me apart."
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| February 26, 2025
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An Invisibility Cloak of the Self: Jane Tara on Being Told She Was Going Blind in Her Forties
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Jane Tara
| February 26, 2025
After the Fall: Hanif Kureishi on Trauma, Recovery and What It Means to Be a Writer
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Hanif Kureishi
| February 11, 2025
The first issue of Reader’s Digest from 1922 is both shocking and relevant.
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James Folta
| February 7, 2025
The Politics of Place: A Conversation Between Shze-Hui Tjoa and Farah Ali
The Authors of “The Story Game” and “The River, The Town” Discuss Memory, c-PTSD, and the Ethics of Re-Imagining
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Shze-Hui Tjoa and Farah Ali
| January 13, 2025
Here’s How You Can Help Fire-Affected Angelenos
Every Little Bit Helps
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Brittany Allen
| January 10, 2025
Landscapes of Pain: On Exploring the Intersections of Physical and Historical Trauma in South Africa
Gabeba Baderoon Considers the Ways We Do and Do Not Confront Personal and Collective Violence
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Gabeba Baderoon
| January 10, 2025
Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024
Because Facts Still Matter
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| December 24, 2024
The Ultimate Passive-Aggressive Holiday Gift: Why Self-Help Books Today Are Failing Readers
Ian Williams Offers Less Meta, Less Rule-Based Ways to Approach Difficult Conversations
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Ian Williams
| December 16, 2024
On World AIDS Day What Does It Mean to Live in a Culture Defined By Virality?
Heather McCalden on World AIDS Day, Ribbons, and Viruses
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Heather McCalden
| December 2, 2024
An Ageist Disease: On Living in Fear of Alzheimer’s
Andrea Gilats o Explores Confounding Questions of Aggression, Identity Shifts, and Care for the Afflicted
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Andrea Gilats
| November 21, 2024
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The Best Crime Movies of 2025
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Why Harry Truman Didn't Trust the U.S. Military with Atomic Bombs
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Alex Wellerstein
5 Contemporary Takes on the Closed Circle Mystery
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L. M. Chilton
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller She is very good at creating a 'sense of anticipation…"