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Tosh Berman on the Sexism of the Muse Myth

Tosh Berman on the Sexism of the Muse Myth

Introducing the Big Table Podcast

By Big Table | April 30, 2021

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

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

The Singer-Songwriter Remembers the Existential Dread of an 80s Childhood

By Brandi Carlile | April 29, 2021

Lil’ Kim is publishing a memoir.

Lil’ Kim is publishing a memoir.

By Walker Caplan | April 28, 2021

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

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

Charles Person Remembers Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the Movement in Birmingham

By Charles Person | April 28, 2021

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

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

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

By Jaime Fuller | April 27, 2021

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

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

By Kate Guadagnino | April 26, 2021

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

By Margaret Kimball | April 26, 2021

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

By Lilly Dancyger | April 23, 2021

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

The Weight of Memory: On Motherhood and the Ghosts of Racial Violence

The Weight of Memory: On Motherhood and the Ghosts of Racial Violence

Cassandra Lane Considers Family History and the Nuances of Conception Stories

By Cassandra Lane | April 23, 2021

Fatima Bhutto on Channeling the Fearlessness of Malcolm X

Fatima Bhutto on Channeling the Fearlessness of Malcolm X

“I learned how to be lonely from a young age.”

By Fatima Bhutto | April 22, 2021

Mass Graves and 21st-Century Slavery: On the Dangerous Plight of Migrants

Mass Graves and 21st-Century Slavery: On the Dangerous Plight of Migrants

Emmanuel Mbolela Considers Our Ongoing Global Humanitarian Crisis

By Emmanuel Mbolela | April 22, 2021

Rereading <em>The Phantom Tollbooth</em> in This Year of Our Pandemic Doldrums

Rereading The Phantom Tollbooth in This Year of Our Pandemic Doldrums

Kate Washington on Norton Juster’s Classic

By Kate Washington | April 21, 2021

The Excruciating Decision to<br> End a Cat’s Life

The Excruciating Decision to
End a Cat’s Life

Martha Cooley on Bohumil Hrabal, Stevie Smith, and the
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