My Year of Reading Every Ursula K. Le Guin Novel

My Year of Reading Every Ursula K. Le Guin Novel

Susan DeFreitas on the Lessons of Le Guin During a Pandemic

By Susan DeFreitas | January 19, 2022

Charles J. Shields on the Profound and Playful Friendship Between Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin

Charles J. Shields on the Profound and Playful Friendship Between Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin

“Baldwin loved her caustic wit.”

By Charles J. Shields | January 19, 2022

My Little Drug Story: David Sanchez on (Begrudgingly) Turning to Autofiction

My Little Drug Story: David Sanchez on (Begrudgingly) Turning to Autofiction

On Addiction Tropes, “Grittiness,” and the Freedom to Focus on Ideas

By David Sanchez | January 19, 2022

“To the Reader”

“To the Reader”

A Poem by Vijay Seshadri

By Vijay Seshadri | January 19, 2022

Lea Ypi on Coming of Age Amid Political Upheaval

Lea Ypi on Coming of Age Amid Political Upheaval

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | January 19, 2022

Excavating Emily: Janice P. Nimura on What Draws Biographers to Certain Lives

Excavating Emily: Janice P. Nimura on What Draws Biographers to Certain Lives

And Why Some Mysteries Have to Stay That Way

By Janice P. Nimura | January 19, 2022

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On the personal tragedy behind Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Lets Martin Luther King Jr. do the talking on Critical Race Theory.

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How Humans Learned to Count, Thus Opening the World

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Michael Brooks on the Surprising Sophistication of “Finger-Counting”

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The Man Who Quietly Built a Massive Archive of Artists’ Deaths

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Watching <em>My Neighbor Totoro</em> on the Eve of My Daughters’ Omicron-Surge Return to School

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Anri Wheeler Muses on What It Means to Live Communally

By Anri Wheeler | January 18, 2022

Kingsley Amis’s Instructions for Coping with Hangovers, Both Physical and Metaphysical

Kingsley Amis’s Instructions for Coping with Hangovers, Both Physical and Metaphysical

Avoid at All Costs: Cigarettes, Cold Showers, and Evelyn Waugh

By Kingsley Amis | January 18, 2022

Jeffrey C. Stewart on the Genesis of Alain Locke’s Transformative “New Negro Aesthetic”

Jeffrey C. Stewart on the Genesis of Alain Locke’s Transformative “New Negro Aesthetic”

"In putting race and aesthetics in conversation with one another, Locke forever changed our understanding of both.”

By Jeffrey C. Stewart | January 18, 2022

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