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What Does It Mean to Write Escapist Literature?

What Does It Mean to Write Escapist Literature?

Caroline Carlson on Children’s Books and Escape Artistry

By Caroline Carlson | July 16, 2024

What the All-American Delusion of the Polygraph Says About Our Relationship to Fact and Fiction

What the All-American Delusion of the Polygraph Says About Our Relationship to Fact and Fiction

Justin St. Germain Considers the Blurry Borders Between Memory, Memoir and Myth

By Justin St. Germain | July 15, 2024

Crooked Parallels: On Alice Munro, Andrea Skinner, and My Mother’s Failure to Protect Me

Crooked Parallels: On Alice Munro, Andrea Skinner, and My Mother’s Failure to Protect Me

For Jonny Diamond the Separation of the Art From the Artist Isn’t the Question

By Jonny Diamond | July 12, 2024

Envy, Obsession, and Instagram: On My Mental Breakdown at an Esteemed Writing Conference

Envy, Obsession, and Instagram: On My Mental Breakdown at an Esteemed Writing Conference

Brittany Ackerman Chronicles a Very Short, Very Bad Fellowship

By Brittany Ackerman | July 12, 2024

What the Decentralized Nature of Anonymous Tells Us About Its Power

What the Decentralized Nature of Anonymous Tells Us About Its Power

Barrett Brown Chronicles the Rise of the Early Internet’s Most Famous Subculture

By Barrett Brown | July 12, 2024

Believing Sylvia Plath: How Our Culture Continues to Blame the Victims of Male Violence

Believing Sylvia Plath: How Our Culture Continues to Blame the Victims of Male Violence

Emily Van Duyne on the Ways Misogyny Masks Itself and Slithers On, Then and Now

By Emily Van Duyne | July 11, 2024

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Inside COVID’s Ground Zero: Wuhan, China Before and After Mass Catastrophe

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The Ghost Muse: How My Best Friend’s Murder Led Me to Write

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Olivia Laing on the Care and Keeping of Gardens In an Era of Climate Emergency

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How Green Spaces Form a Key Part of Our Shared Existence

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What Truman Capote’s <em>In Cold Blood</em> Reveals About Its Author's Intentions

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