How David Foster Wallace Used Compromise Aesthetics to Sell <em>Infinite Jest</em>

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Rachel Greenwald Smith on the Treacherous Common Territories of Literary Culture and Capitalism

By Rachel Greenwald Smith | August 20, 2021

Tales of Bohemian Living with The Lounge Lizards in 1979 New York

Tales of Bohemian Living with The Lounge Lizards in 1979 New York

John Lurie on the Days of Sex, Drugs, and Car Crash Jazz

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The Great Cosmological Debate of the Twentieth Century

The Great Cosmological Debate of the Twentieth Century

Paul Halpern on What It Took to Confirm the Big Bang Theory

By Paul Halpern | August 20, 2021

Meet the Real-Life Inspiration Behind “Mr. Toad”

Meet the Real-Life Inspiration Behind “Mr. Toad”

Tom Standage on the Emergence of the Automobile,
and the Headaches That Came With It

By Tom Standage | August 20, 2021

Interview with an Indie Press: Nightboat Books

Interview with an Indie Press: Nightboat Books

On Publishing Difficult-to-Classify Books

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Love Warriors: Women of Color Doulas in a Time of Crisis

Love Warriors: Women of Color Doulas in a Time of Crisis

Jennifer C. Nash on Birthwork as a Practice that Black Women Should Claim

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Federico García Lorca predicted his own death in a poem.

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The Satanic Temple is awarding scholarships to “devil’s advocates.”

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