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Love Books? You Still Might Suffer From Bibliophobia

Love Books? You Still Might Suffer From Bibliophobia

Sarah Chihaya on the Real Consequences of Fearing Books

By Sarah Chihaya | February 4, 2025

What We Lost In the Fire: On the Stories We Tell To Fill Life’s Empty Spaces

What We Lost In the Fire: On the Stories We Tell To Fill Life’s Empty Spaces

For Lea Carpenter, “There is a third story, the one told in the second person. This is the story you tell yourself.”

By Lea Carpenter | January 30, 2025

More Than a Muse: Kay Sohini on Discovering Literary New York

More Than a Muse: Kay Sohini on Discovering Literary New York

From Her Graphic Memoir “This Beautiful, Ridiculous City”

By Kay Sohini | January 29, 2025

What We Can Learn From a Dog’s Way of Looking At the World

What We Can Learn From a Dog’s Way of Looking At the World

Mark Rowlands on the Value of Appreciating Daily Life's Small Yet Significant Routines

By Mark Rowlands | January 28, 2025

Sex, Love and Longing in 1970s Gay New York: Edmund White on His Past Lovers

Sex, Love and Longing in 1970s Gay New York: Edmund White on His Past Lovers

“He was a Peter Pan, the puer aeternus. I was abject in my longing for him.”

By Edmund White | January 28, 2025

Why Absolute Truth is Still Worth Pursuing In a Narrative-Driven World

Why Absolute Truth is Still Worth Pursuing In a Narrative-Driven World

Jay Nicorvo on Separating Fact From Perception While Writing a True Crime Memoir

By Jay Nicorvo | January 27, 2025

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Canine Charms: Markus Zusak on Rescuing a Dog and Naming It After a Character in His Fiction

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Remembering Renay: On Growing Up With an Unforgettable Mother

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With Humor and Love, Andy Corren Revisits a Childhood of Poverty, Paperbacks, and Poetry

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A Childhood Under Siege: What It Means to Grow Up as a Black Boy in Suburban America

A Childhood Under Siege: What It Means to Grow Up as a Black Boy in Suburban America

Lee Hawkins: “Slowly, it began to register that being Black rarely meant freedom.”

By Lee Hawkins | January 16, 2025

The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

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Carolyn Kellogg on Realizing the Value of the Irreplaceable

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Feeling in Farsi, Writing in English: <br>On Translating Your Life From One Language to Another

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Sahar Delijani Navigates the Complexity of Conjuring Her Old Life in a New Language

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Landscapes of Pain: On Exploring the Intersections of Physical and Historical Trauma in South Africa

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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From Red Dust to Distrust: On the Unhealed Wounds of Nuclear Testing

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