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14 Books <em>Not</em> to Read if You’re Hungry

14 Books Not to Read if You’re Hungry

Cooking Memoirs, Culinary Profiles, Fictional Restaurants, and More

By Hannah Howard | May 3, 2018

John Berger Has Some Thoughts About Smoking

John Berger Has Some Thoughts About Smoking

From Smoke, with Illustrations by Selçuk Demirel

By John Berger | May 3, 2018

What If We Haven't Met Aliens Yet Because They've Messed Up Their Planets Too?

What If We Haven't Met Aliens Yet Because They've Messed Up Their Planets Too?

Nathan H. Lents Wonders If We're the Best the Universe Can Do

By nathanhlents | May 3, 2018

50 Pulp Cover Treatments of Classic Works of Literature

50 Pulp Cover Treatments of Classic Works of Literature

Guns, Broads, Beefcake, Literariness

By Emily Temple | May 2, 2018

For Libraries, the

For Libraries, the "Customer is Always Right" Might Be Wrong

Kristen Arnett: Hard Lessons Learned from the Front Desk

By Kristen Arnett | May 2, 2018

What Happens When You Sail Into a Hurricane

What Happens When You Sail Into a Hurricane

The Final Hours of the Merchant Ship El Faro

By Rachel Slade | May 2, 2018

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Some of the First Sketches of Winnie-the-Pooh

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How Gay Liberation Sparked the Nightclub Scene in London

By Peter Ackroyd | May 2, 2018

The Comics of Aline Kominsky-Crumb: Claiming Objectification as Desire

By Hillary Chute | May 2, 2018

50 Fictional Writers, Ranked

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By Emily Temple | May 1, 2018

If Reality TV is Superficial, Why Does It Make Me Feel So Much?

If Reality TV is Superficial, Why Does It Make Me Feel So Much?

"I Don’t Have the Confidence to Call What I Love Bad and Still Love It"

By Lucas Mann | May 1, 2018

Against Clarity (or In Praise of Youthful Wisdom)

Against Clarity (or In Praise of Youthful Wisdom)

Steven Church: You Don't Have to Be Old to Write a Memoir

By Steven Church | May 1, 2018

The Night I Slept in James Thurber's Bed

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A Haunted House and Dog Lover's Paradise

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The First Film Ever Streamed on the Internet is Kind of Crazy

The First Film Ever Streamed on the Internet is Kind of Crazy

Beekeeping, Alien Planets, and the Limits of Narrative as Technology

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On Marjane Satrapi’s Early #MeToo Novel

On Marjane Satrapi’s Early #MeToo Novel

How Embroideries Reveals the Power of Women's Stories

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 30, 2018

A Pulitzer Prize is Only the Beginning for Kendrick Lamar

A Pulitzer Prize is Only the Beginning for Kendrick Lamar

On the Ever-Blurring Line Between Hip Hop and Poetry

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