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    Art

    How Sylvia Sleigh’s Nude Male Portraits Subverted the Muse Narrative

    By Ruth Millington  May 9, 2022
    Artists

    Behind the Scenes at Andy Warhol’s First Big Bash in “Vacant, Vacuous Hollywood”

    By Mark Rozzo  May 9, 2022
    Keen On

    Was Shakespeare a Plagiarist?

    By Keen On  May 9, 2022
    Music history

    Lyrical Black Face: The Truth About “My Old Kentucky Home”

    By Emily Bingham  May 9, 2022
    Queers at the End of the World

    Will Our Bodies Know What to Do at the End of the World?

    By Queers at the End of the World  May 9, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Robin Hemley on Kafka and Writerly Ambition

    By History of Literature  May 9, 2022
    Creative Nonfiction

    Confessions From a Lifetime of Looking

    By Laurie Stone  May 9, 2022
    Keen On

    How Jews Made the Art World Modern

    By Keen On  May 9, 2022
    Keen On

    How Poets Could Bring Peace to Israel and Palestine

    By Keen On  May 9, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   May 9, 2022
    Keen On

    How to Save the World For Just a Trillion Dollars

    By Keen On  May 9, 2022
    Keen On

    Why We Need to Bring Down Global Birth Rates and Have Fewer Children

    By Keen On  May 9, 2022
    Abortion

    “Women afraid of dying while / they are trying to find their life.” Poetry of Abortion by Alissa Quart

    By Katha Pollitt and Alissa Quart  May 6, 2022
    Anthropocene

    The Dust of Ancient Suns: Making Art and Meaning From the Depths of Deep Time

    By David Farrier  May 6, 2022
    Mothers

    When You Learn Your Mother Was a Serious Writer Only After She’s Gone

    By Michael Bourne  May 6, 2022
    Patriarchy

    Lara Bazelon on the Knife’s Edge That Ambitious Women Must Navigate

    By Lara Bazelon  May 6, 2022
    Abortion

    Why Roe v. Wade Was Just the Beginning of a Long Fight

    By Lauren Rankin  May 6, 2022
    Open Source

    Scott Nelson: The War in Ukraine is a War for Wheat and Corn

    By Open Source  May 6, 2022
    American Presidents

    How Lady Bird Johnson Saw the President Die

    By Julia Sweig  May 6, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Vauhini Vara on Keeping a Long Writing Project Alive

    By Vauhini Vara  May 6, 2022
    The Internet

    How the Threat of Abuse Silences Women Online

    By Nina Jankowicz  May 6, 2022
    Mothers

    The Complex Grief of Losing a Mother You Already Mourned

    By Candice Iloh  May 6, 2022
    New York City

    How Zabar’s Grew from a Modest Business to a Culinary Icon

    By Lori Zabar  May 6, 2022
    Poetry

    Trieste vs. Milan, Poetry vs. Plot: Beppe Severgnini on the Italian Love—And Need—For Poetry

    By Beppe Severgnini  May 6, 2022
    Keen On

    Can Conservatives Be Funny?

    By Keen On  May 6, 2022
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