How White Women’s Patronage of Black Artists Exposed Racial Fault Lines

How White Women’s Patronage of Black Artists Exposed Racial Fault Lines

L.S. Stratton on “Godmother” Charlotte Osgood Mason and Artistic Control During the Harlem Renaissance

By L.S. Stratton | June 13, 2024

Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s short story prize.

Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s short story prize.

By James Folta | June 12, 2024

The Ultimate Summer 2024 Reading List

The Ultimate Summer 2024 Reading List

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By Emily Temple | June 12, 2024

What I Learned From Living With Joan Didion

What I Learned From Living With Joan Didion

Cory Leadbeater on His Life-Changing Friendship With a Literary Icon

By Cory Leadbeater | June 12, 2024

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

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

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

By Tomas Moniz | June 12, 2024

Kill the Pet, Kill the Book’s Rating: The Perils of Writing Dogs in Fiction

Kill the Pet, Kill the Book’s Rating: The Perils of Writing Dogs in Fiction

Clare Pooley on Reviewers’ Tendency to Punish Novels with Dead Canines

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Weaponizing a Word: On Falsely Equating Criticism of Israel With Antisemitism

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Daniel José Older: “Genocide is the single most important and urgent threat to free speech on this planet.”

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What Jane Austen’s Work Can Tell Us About the British Imperial Project

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Corinne Fowler Considers the Colonial Legacy of the English Countryside

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A Fundamental Boundary: What the Mississippi River Means to America

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Boyce Upholt on the Meaning and Use of Rivers and Other Waterways

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

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D.S. Waldman Considers the Work of John Ashbery, Ben Lerner, and Georges Braque

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A Woman’s Place is in the Ring: On Gender, Performativity and the Unreal

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Rufi Thorpe Considers Wrestling As a Way of Revealing the Inner Self

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