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The Literary Agent Who Lost the Narrative Thread

The Literary Agent Who Lost the Narrative Thread

Jennifer Herrera on Reckoning with Grief and How She Tells Her Story

By Jennifer Michelle Herrera | September 9, 2026

A Legal History of Anti-Chinese Racism in America

A Legal History of Anti-Chinese Racism in America

From Beth Lew-Williams’s Cundill Prize-Shortlisted John Doe Chinaman

By Beth Lew-Williams | September 9, 2026

Rejected pitches for </br><em>Practical Magic 2.</em>

Rejected pitches for
Practical Magic 2.

By Brittany Allen | September 8, 2026

Emily Wilson Talks Complicated Men, Celebrating Strangeness, and Why There is Always Another Way to Say It

Emily Wilson Talks Complicated Men, Celebrating Strangeness, and Why There is Always Another Way to Say It

In Conversation with Leanne Ogasawara

By Leanne Ogasawara | September 8, 2026

How—and Why—We Find Ourselves Trapped By Our Jobs

How—and Why—We Find Ourselves Trapped By Our Jobs

Lindsay Crouse on the Perils of Over Self-Identification With What We Do For a Living

By Lindsay Crouse | September 8, 2026

What the Ghetto of Venice Reveals About Jewish History and Identity in Europe

What the Ghetto of Venice Reveals About Jewish History and Identity in Europe

From Alexander Lee's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted The First Ghetto

By Alexander Lee | September 8, 2026

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Is Time Even Real? Does It Even Flow?

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By Jim al-Khalili | September 4, 2026

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By Chloe Benjamin | September 4, 2026

How Fordism and Fascism Gave Birth to Modern Car Culture

How Fordism and Fascism Gave Birth to Modern Car Culture

The Zetkin Collective Explores the Intersections of Economic Practice and Authoritarianism in the 20th Century

By The Zetkin Collective | September 4, 2026

Latin America’s Agrarian Novels Chronicled the Birth of a New World

Latin America’s Agrarian Novels Chronicled the Birth of a New World

Ericka Beckman on How These 1920s Spanish Novels Reshaped Land and Labor

By Ericka Beckman | September 4, 2026

On Edmond Albius, the Enslaved Man Who Pioneered the Pollination of Vanilla

On Edmond Albius, the Enslaved Man Who Pioneered the Pollination of Vanilla

From Eric T. Jennings’s Cundill Prize-Shortlisted Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean

By Eric T. Jennings | September 4, 2026

How the Fanatical Legion of Mary Secreted Young Girls Away to Toil in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

How the Fanatical Legion of Mary Secreted Young Girls Away to Toil in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

From Louise Brangan's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted The Fallen: The Lost Girls of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries and a Legacy of Silence

By Louise Brangan | September 4, 2026

A new font promises to hide your text from AI.

A new font promises to hide your text from AI.

By James Folta | September 3, 2026

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