Announcing the winners of the 2021 Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes.

Announcing the winners of the 2021 Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes.

By Walker Caplan | September 9, 2021

And now there's a Sally Rooney mural.

And now there's a Sally Rooney mural.

By Emily Temple | September 9, 2021

Morgan Parker on Why <em>The Faculty</em> is the Perfect Allegory for Life in America

Morgan Parker on Why The Faculty is the Perfect Allegory for Life in America

In Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on the Open Form Podcast

By Open Form | September 9, 2021

Finding Purpose in the Desolation of Antarctica

Finding Purpose in the Desolation of Antarctica

Jemma Wadham on the Extreme Wildness and Barren Backdrop
of the Dry Valleys

By Jemma Wadham | September 9, 2021

Falling in Love with Instant Anonymity: How I Became a Perpetual Student of LA

Falling in Love with Instant Anonymity: How I Became a Perpetual Student of LA

María Amparo Escandón on Fictionalizing a Newfound Home on the West Coast

By María Amparo Escandón | September 9, 2021

How Native Basketball Challenged Colonial Hegemony and Rejected Conformity

How Native Basketball Challenged Colonial Hegemony and Rejected Conformity

Abe Streep on the History of Indigenous Youth Who Turned Adversity into Opportunity

By Abe Streep | September 9, 2021

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Writing Black Essays in White People’s Houses

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Jill Louise Busby on the Writing Residency Industrial Complex

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WATCH: Christopher Sorrentino on Loving and Losing a Difficult Parent

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In Conversation with Sam Lipsyte at Greenlight Bookstore

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Philip Stephens on Not-So-Great Britain

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In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 9, 2021

Gender, Stigma, and Bias: Everything We Get Wrong About Borderline Personality Disorder

Gender, Stigma, and Bias: Everything We Get Wrong About Borderline Personality Disorder

Jonathan Foiles Wonders Who Decides Where the “Borderline” Really Is

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Anne Sebba on Ethel Rosenberg’s Early Days

Anne Sebba on Ethel Rosenberg’s Early Days

This Week from Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | September 9, 2021

Beyond the West: On the Second Sino-Japanese War

Beyond the West: On the Second Sino-Japanese War

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By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | September 9, 2021

Susanna Clarke's <em>Piranesi</em> has won the Women's Prize for Fiction.

Susanna Clarke's Piranesi has won the Women's Prize for Fiction.

By Snigdha Koirala | September 8, 2021

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