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How Being a Writer Helped Me Navigate the American Health Insurance System—and Get My Hands on “Liquid Gold”

How Being a Writer Helped Me Navigate the American Health Insurance System—and Get My Hands on “Liquid Gold”

Emma Smith-Stevens on the High Cost of Her Medical Care and the Cruelty of For-Profit Medicine

By Emma Smith-Stevens | October 20, 2026

On Writing About Syria’s Uyghur Community As a Chinese-American

On Writing About Syria’s Uyghur Community As a Chinese-American

Emily Feng Considers the Challenges of Navigating Trauma and Identity in a Post-War Context

By Emily Feng | October 19, 2026

A Look at Life Aboard the <em>Hindenburg</em> Before Disaster Struck

A Look at Life Aboard the Hindenburg Before Disaster Struck

Catherine Grace Katz on the Relationship Between the Transatlantic Zeppelin’s German Crew and American Passengers

By Catherine Grace Katz | October 19, 2026

Enough With Your Lost Cause: The Treasonous Confederacy Was Never a Nation

Enough With Your Lost Cause: The Treasonous Confederacy Was Never a Nation

Connor Williams on the Myth of the United States Confederacy

By Connor Williams | October 19, 2026

A Field-Guide to the Brontës’ Literary Universe

A Field-Guide to the Brontës’ Literary Universe

Amy M. King Explores the Landscapes and Botany That Shaped the Sisters’ Novels

By Amy M. King | October 19, 2026

Joseph Luzzi on Finding Inspiration Through His Mother’s Storytelling

Joseph Luzzi on Finding Inspiration Through His Mother’s Storytelling

“And so she held forth, the words pouring out of her in what would be her lone work and her masterpiece, the Book of Life.”

By Joseph Luzzi | October 19, 2026

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By Beth Lew-Williams | October 19, 2026

How the Growing Role of Memoir in the Academy Offers a New Way to Teach Race and Gender

By Tiffany Gayle Chenault and Georgiann Davis | October 19, 2026

This week's news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | October 16, 2026

Here’s what’s making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | October 16, 2026

What Three Recent Films Reveal About How We View Poets and Poetry

What Three Recent Films Reveal About How We View Poets and Poetry

Matt Longabucco Reviews What Does That Nature Say to You, A Poet and Late Fame

By Matt Longabucco | October 16, 2026

Photographing the Radical Change of 1960s and 70s America

Photographing the Radical Change of 1960s and 70s America

How Jean-Pierre and Eliane Laffont Documented the Counterculture

By Jean-Pierre Laffont and Eliane Laffont | October 16, 2026

Trying to Move Past the Endless Stereotyping of the “Rural American”

Trying to Move Past the Endless Stereotyping of the “Rural American”

Amy Olberding on Subverting the Superficial View of Country Life

By Amy Olberding | October 16, 2026

On the Unlikely Beauty (and Hidden Danger) of a Bogland

On the Unlikely Beauty (and Hidden Danger) of a Bogland

Merritt R. Turetsky Tells Us Why We Must Preserve Bogs and Peatlands

By Merritt R. Turetsky | October 16, 2026

Anand Giridharadas on How the Reverend Al Sharpton Works to Shape Narratives of Justice

Anand Giridharadas on How the Reverend Al Sharpton Works to Shape Narratives of Justice

Looking Into “Sharpton’s horizontally integrated machinery of justice seeking could be powerful.”

By Anand Giridharadas | October 16, 2026

Five Essential Books to Understand the Venetian Ghetto and Jewish History

Five Essential Books to Understand the Venetian Ghetto and Jewish History

Cundill History Prize Finalist Alexander Lee Recommends John Julius Norwich, Margaret Plant, and More

By Alexander Lee | October 16, 2026

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