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

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

Michael Bourne Remembers His Mother, Nancy Bourne, Author of Spotswood, Virginia

By Michael Bourne | May 6, 2022

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

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

“Instinctive self-diminishment isn’t a biologically determined female trait; it is a learned and rewarded behavior.”

By Lara Bazelon | May 6, 2022

Why <em>Roe v. Wade</em> Was Just the Beginning of a Long Fight

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

Lauren Rankin on the People Who Have Kept Clinics Open

By Lauren Rankin | May 6, 2022

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

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

This Week on Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon

By Open Source | May 6, 2022

How Lady Bird Johnson Saw the President Die

How Lady Bird Johnson Saw the President Die

Julia Sweig On America’s Most Famous Second Lady-Turned-First

By Julia Sweig | May 6, 2022

Vauhini Vara on Keeping a Long Writing Project Alive

Vauhini Vara on Keeping a Long Writing Project Alive

Writing as Endurance

By Vauhini Vara | May 6, 2022

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By Nina Jankowicz | May 6, 2022

The Complex Grief of Losing a Mother You Already Mourned

By Candice Iloh | May 6, 2022

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By Lori Zabar | May 6, 2022

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

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

“Poetry belongs not only to those who write it but also to those who read it and listen to it.”

By Beppe Severgnini | May 6, 2022

Can Conservatives Be Funny?

Can Conservatives Be Funny?

Nick Marx in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 6, 2022

The Moral Case for Demilitarizing the Southern Border

The Moral Case for Demilitarizing the Southern Border

Levi Vonk in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 6, 2022

A bookstore owner's petition to make Harriet Tubman Day a holiday is at 8,000 signatures.

A bookstore owner's petition to make Harriet Tubman Day a holiday is at 8,000 signatures.

By Corinne Segal | May 5, 2022

How Did James Baldwin Become a 21st-Century Influencer?

How Did James Baldwin Become a 21st-Century Influencer?

Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster on the Blessing and Curse of Shareability on Twitter

By Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster | May 5, 2022

What It Means to Anthologize the Literature of Abortion

What It Means to Anthologize the Literature of Abortion

Annie Finch, Editor of Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, in Conversation with Some Contributors

By Literary Hub | May 5, 2022

Leslie Jamison on the Role of the Graspy Grad Student in <em>Midsommar</em>

Leslie Jamison on the Role of the Graspy Grad Student in Midsommar

In Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on the Open Form Podcast

By Open Form | May 5, 2022

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