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On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt Whitman

On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt Whitman

“The first experience of literary love tends, like the first experience of erotic love, to come in youth.”

By Mark Edmundson | April 9, 2021

Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

Stephanie Dray on the Historical Mysteries of the
Chateau de Chavaniac

By Stephanie Dray | April 9, 2021

Subverting the Script of the Adoption Industrial Complex

Subverting the Script of the Adoption Industrial Complex

Tiana Nobile on Resisting the Erasure of Adoptees’ Stories

By Tiana Nobile | April 9, 2021

On Finding the Balance Between Solitude and Community at an MFA Program

On Finding the Balance Between Solitude and Community at an MFA Program

For Sanjena Sathian, a Room of One’s Own Came with Roommates

By Sanjena Sathian | April 7, 2021

Gina Frangello: The Case Against Self-Flagellation in Memoir

Gina Frangello: The Case Against Self-Flagellation in Memoir

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | April 7, 2021

The Joy and Privilege of Growing Up in an Indie Bookstore

The Joy and Privilege of Growing Up in an Indie Bookstore

Erik Hoel on His Formative Years in the Shelves of His Mother’s Bookstore, The Jabberwocky

By Erik Hoel | April 6, 2021

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Saving and Preserving Black Community Spaces on the South Side of Chicago

By Tara Betts | April 6, 2021

Gina Frangello on the Anger That Smolders Behind Adultery

By Gina Frangello | April 6, 2021

Haruki Murakami on the Year Dave Hilton Debuted for the Yakult Swallows

By Haruki Murakami | April 5, 2021

5 Audiobooks for Celebrating the Stories of Trailblazing Women

5 Audiobooks for Celebrating the Stories of Trailblazing Women

James Tate Hill Recommends Elizabeth Blackwell,
Cicely Tyson, and More

By James Tate Hill | April 5, 2021

The Unique Pleasures of Letter-Writing in a Era of Impulsive Interaction

The Unique Pleasures of Letter-Writing in a Era of Impulsive Interaction

Jackie Polzin on the Focused, Private Connections of
Good Correspondence

By Jackie Polzin | April 2, 2021

The Addict as Archaeologist: Telling the Hard Stories of Family Tragedy

The Addict as Archaeologist: Telling the Hard Stories of Family Tragedy

Steven Wingate on the Long Journey to His Latest Novel

By Steven Wingate | April 2, 2021

7 Autobiographies and Memoirs That Remind Us of the Messiness of Memory

7 Autobiographies and Memoirs That Remind Us of the Messiness of Memory

Whitney Otto Recommends Langston Hughes,
Gertrude Stein, and More

By Whitney Otto | March 31, 2021

Melissa Febos on the Uses of the Word “Slut”

Melissa Febos on the Uses of the Word “Slut”

“Oh, was I ever a messy child. A real slut in the making.”

By Melissa Febos | March 30, 2021

A Room of One’s Own Sounds Great... But What If You're a Mom?

A Room of One’s Own Sounds Great... But What If You're a Mom?

Ilona Bannister on the Fantasy of Compartmentalization

By Ilona Bannister | March 30, 2021

What It Means to Choose Whiteness

What It Means to Choose Whiteness

Marcos Gonsalez on Racism, Violence, and Innocence

By Marcos Gonsalez | March 30, 2021

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