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When a Writer Wants You and Only You to Design Their Cover

When a Writer Wants You and Only You to Design Their Cover

Alison Forner on Creating the Cover for Lisa Brennan-Jobs' Small Fry

By Alison Forner | October 10, 2018

My Disease is Not a Metaphor

My Disease is Not a Metaphor

Maggie Levantovskaya on Her Life with Lupus

By Maggie Levantovskaya | October 2, 2018

My Return to Tehran: On Family, Restlessness, and Revolution

My Return to Tehran: On Family, Restlessness, and Revolution

Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi and the Women Who Shaped Her Life

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi | September 27, 2018

Teaching the Literature of Mad Women

Teaching the Literature of Mad Women

On Gendered Notions of Mental Illness, and Who "Deserves" to Be Depressed

By Sarah Fawn Montgomery | September 24, 2018

'I Started to Cry.' Sally Field on Bringing <em>Norma Rae</em> to Cannes

'I Started to Cry.' Sally Field on Bringing Norma Rae to Cannes

"The people below rose to their feet, turned to us, and cheered."

By Sally Field | September 24, 2018

Remembering My Lola By Teaching Myself How to Cook

Remembering My Lola By Teaching Myself How to Cook

She Taught Me to Take Whatever I Had and Make a Home Out of It

By Melissa R. Sipin | September 21, 2018

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What Would You Do Suddenly Adrift in a Lifeboat in the North Atlantic?

What Would You Do Suddenly Adrift in a Lifeboat in the North Atlantic?

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From an Army Camp to the Champs-Élysées: Bill Cunningham's Paris

From an Army Camp to the Champs-Élysées: Bill Cunningham's Paris

"Everything was more French than I ever imagined!"

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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

When the Government Tried (and Failed) to Come for a Japanese-American Journalist

When the Government Tried (and Failed) to Come for a Japanese-American Journalist

From the Late James Omura's Memoir of Internment and Repression

By James Matsumoto Omura and Arthur Hansen | August 29, 2018

Vanessa Hua: On the Banned Chinese Novel My Father Loved in His Youth

Vanessa Hua: On the Banned Chinese Novel My Father Loved in His Youth

Inside the Rollicking, Political World of The Water Margin

By Vanessa Hua | August 27, 2018

Adrienne Rich: It Is Hard to Write About My Own Mother

Adrienne Rich: It Is Hard to Write About My Own Mother

On the Deep Complexity of the Mother-Daughter Relationship

By Adrienne Rich | August 24, 2018

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