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Why We All Should Have a “Good Art Friend”

Why We All Should Have a “Good Art Friend”

Rachel Zimmerman on an Invaluable Literary Friendship Cut Short By Cancer

By Rachel Zimmerman | June 25, 2024

Reading Jill Ciment’s <em>Consent</em> As a Former Teenage Bride

Reading Jill Ciment’s Consent As a Former Teenage Bride

Rafia Zakaria Considers Context, Choices and Consequences Across Eras and Cultures

By Rafia Zakaria | June 24, 2024

The Gaps Filled by Fiction: On Victoria Amelina’s <em>Dom’s Dream Kingdom</em>

The Gaps Filled by Fiction: On Victoria Amelina’s Dom’s Dream Kingdom

Héctor Abad Remembers a Rising Star of Ukrainian Literature Killed by Putin’s War

By Héctor Abad | June 24, 2024

Exposing Vulnerability: On Robert Olmstead's <em>Stay Here with Me</em>

Exposing Vulnerability: On Robert Olmstead's Stay Here with Me

"It is contrary, it cuts against the grain, including the grain of Olmstead’s own work."

By Brock Clarke | June 20, 2024

Dreaming in English of Dreaming in Kashmiri: What You Can Only Express in One Language

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Finding What Works: Alex DiFrancesco on Transness and Spirituality

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“I wanted something that I could claim as my own, something steeped in who I was as a person.”

By Alex DiFrancesco | June 18, 2024

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Francine Prose on the Unfinished Sexual Revolution of the 1970s

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How Colorism Impacts Black Women’s Physical and Mental Health

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What I Learned From Living With Joan Didion

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Duty of Care: Tomas Moniz on Trauma, Healing and Houseplants

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“I discovered something different through the trauma. We learn to grieve by grieving.”

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Enter the Butterfly: What Science Can Reveal About Our Own Fragile Self-Conceptions

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Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

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Not Like Other Dykes: On Femininity, Basketball, and the Caitlin Clark Effect

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