Seeking a Counterculture of Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing

Seeking a Counterculture of Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing

Pete Davis on Making Meaning Through the Radical Act of Limiting Your Options

By Pete Davis | May 3, 2021

Exploring My Disparate Cultures in Fiction Helped Me Better Understand Them Both

Exploring My Disparate Cultures in Fiction Helped Me Better Understand Them Both

Gian Sardar on the Distance Between Kurdistan and Rural Minnesota

By Gian Sardar | May 3, 2021

Adam Mansbach on the Difficulty of Writing an Honest Elegy About His Brother

Adam Mansbach on the Difficulty of Writing an Honest Elegy About His Brother

Shawn Setaro in Conversation with the Author of I Had a Brother Once

By Shawn Setaro | May 3, 2021

"Write as if you were dying." Read Annie Dillard’s greatest writing advice.

By Walker Caplan | April 30, 2021

Excerpts from <em>A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing</em>

Excerpts from A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing

Kimberly Grey on Chronic Pain and the Loss of the Mother

By Kimberly Grey | April 30, 2021

Tosh Berman on the Sexism of the Muse Myth

Tosh Berman on the Sexism of the Muse Myth

Introducing the Big Table Podcast

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Looking for God in Teddy Ruxpin: Brandi Carlile on Faith and Music

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The Man Who Set Out to Kill Segregation... or Be Killed by It

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Comfort in Quarantine: On Going Deeper Into the Solitude of Books

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Jaime Fuller Reads Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and Marian Engel’s Bear

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Light the Fire and Fan the Flames: Surviving China’s Cultural Revolution

Light the Fire and Fan the Flames: Surviving China’s Cultural Revolution

Kent Wong on a Childhood Amid Unstable and Dangerous Times

By Kent Wong | April 27, 2021

Complicated Comfort: Finding Unlikely Escape in the Restoration of a Childhood Dollhouse

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Kate Guadagnino on the Solace of Neglected Objects

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Saying the Unsaid: How Writing a Graphic Memoir Helped Dispel My Family’s Shame

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Margaret Kimball on Spilling Her Family’s Secrets, with Their Reluctant Cooperation

By Margaret Kimball | April 26, 2021

Misadventures in J-School: When Grad School is the Wrong Thing

Misadventures in J-School: When Grad School is the Wrong Thing

Lilly Dancyger: “Being at Columbia felt as rebellious as dropping out of high school.”

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The Book Research No One Would Want: Time in the ICU

The Book Research No One Would Want: Time in the ICU

Paul Griner on What Time in the Hospital Can Reveal About Character

By Paul Griner | April 23, 2021

How To Tell Readers Who You Are Without Telling Them Who You Are

How To Tell Readers Who You Are Without Telling Them Who You Are

Ursula Pike on the Fine Line Between a Signifier and a Trope

By Ursula Pike | April 23, 2021

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