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Seven Swims: Omar El Akkad Chronicles a Life In Water

Seven Swims: Omar El Akkad Chronicles a Life In Water

“The sense of drowning comes with a clarity of sorts: you get to know intimately, if only for a few seconds.”

By Omar El Akkad | June 16, 2023

Helen Ellis on Writing About People You Know (in a Nice Way).

Helen Ellis on Writing About People You Know (in a Nice Way).

“If you’ve told the same story three times this week, write that one.”

By Helen Ellis | June 16, 2023

The Story of American Ice Begins with an Outrageous Marketing Plan

The Story of American Ice Begins with an Outrageous Marketing Plan

Amy Brady and Jeff Vandermeer in Conversation About the History and Future of Ice

By Jeff VanderMeer | June 16, 2023

A Desi Mr. Darcy: Sayantani DasGupta on Diverse Retellings of Regency Tales

A Desi Mr. Darcy: Sayantani DasGupta on Diverse Retellings of Regency Tales

“Maybe the sort of multicultural representation we see in recent Regency romances can be a kind of medicine.”

By Sayantani DasGupta | June 16, 2023

Mirinae Lee on Learning How to Write About War

Mirinae Lee on Learning How to Write About War

"However painful it is to hear such stories, it is much more difficult for the wounded to share them."

By Mirinae Lee | June 16, 2023

An Interdisciplinary Friendship: Rajesh Parameswaran and Joeun Kim Aatchim in Conversation

An Interdisciplinary Friendship: Rajesh Parameswaran and Joeun Kim Aatchim in Conversation

A Writer and a Painter Discuss the Distractions of Residencies and the Mortality of Memories

By Rajesh Parameswaran and Joeun Kim Aatchim | June 16, 2023

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How Writing About Climate Change Can Become a Form of Escapism

By Deborah Willis | June 15, 2023

Indulging in the Lightness of American Born Chinese is Like Escaping Into a World We Haven’t Built Yet

By Yao Xiao | June 15, 2023

From Servant to Sidekick: The “Black Friend,” Then and Now

From Servant to Sidekick: The “Black Friend,” Then and Now

Aisha Harris Reflects on Racial Representation in Popular Culture

By Aisha Harris | June 15, 2023

What 300 Hours of Interviewing Musicians Taught Chris Payne

What 300 Hours of Interviewing Musicians Taught Chris Payne

The Author of Reflects on the Oral History of Emo Music

By Chris Payne | June 15, 2023

A Short Childhood and a Long Depression with Luiz Schwarcz

A Short Childhood and a Long Depression with Luiz Schwarcz

In Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | June 15, 2023

Lights, Camera, White House: Matt Quirk on the Enduring Power of the West Wing in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Film

Lights, Camera, White House: Matt Quirk on the Enduring Power of the West Wing in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Film

Matt Quirk in Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 15, 2023

Simone Stolzoff on How to Reclaim Our Life From Work

Simone Stolzoff on How to Reclaim Our Life From Work

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | June 15, 2023

Hal Hershfield on How to Escape the Tyranny of the Present

Hal Hershfield on How to Escape the Tyranny of the Present

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | June 15, 2023

Labyrinths.">"I am the fire." Read a 1962 review of Jorge Luis Borges' Labyrinths.

By Dan Sheehan | June 14, 2023

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