On Spite: The Pros and Cons of Being Deeply... Petty

On Spite: The Pros and Cons of Being Deeply... Petty

Simon McCarthy-Jones Offers a Brief History of
Small Human Vengeances

By Simon McCarthy-Jones | April 14, 2021

Why is Maintaining Adult Friendships So Difficult?

Why is Maintaining Adult Friendships So Difficult?

Kristin van Ogtrop on the Ones That Get Away

By Kristin van Ogtrop | April 14, 2021

Finding Hemingway: Seeing the Self Behind the Self-Mythologizer

Finding Hemingway: Seeing the Self Behind the Self-Mythologizer

Alex Thomas on Lynn Novick and Ken Burns’s New Documentary

By Alex Thomas | April 14, 2021

Is Social Media Really Polarizing Us? Or Is it Just... Us?

Is Social Media Really Polarizing Us? Or Is it Just... Us?

Chris Bail in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 14, 2021

Natalie Portman is your new Ferrante heroine.

Natalie Portman is your new Ferrante heroine.

By Dan Sheehan | April 13, 2021

Soon you’ll be able to vacation at Jane Austen’s country estate . . . in a cowshed.

Soon you’ll be able to vacation at Jane Austen’s country estate . . . in a cowshed.

By Walker Caplan | April 13, 2021

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Eloghosa Osunde has won The Paris Review’s 2021 Plimpton Prize for Fiction.

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Of course Boris Johnson is a huge Tintin fan.

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Check out the cover for Sally Rooney's next novel, <em>Beautiful World, Where Are You</em>.

Check out the cover for Sally Rooney's next novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You.

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What the Pandemic Showed Us About a Certain Kind of New Yorker

What the Pandemic Showed Us About a Certain Kind of New Yorker

Emily Raboteau on What It Means to Share Urban Space

By Emily Raboteau | April 13, 2021

Leaning into Mystery: On the Inner Life of an Aging<br> Shelter Dog

Leaning into Mystery: On the Inner Life of an Aging
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JoAnne Tompkins Considers the Resilience, Strength, and Companionship of a Beloved Pet

By JoAnne Tompkins | April 13, 2021

Goatskin, Tree Bark, and One Expensive Scribe: How “The King of the World’s Booksellers” Produced Manuscripts

Goatskin, Tree Bark, and One Expensive Scribe: How “The King of the World’s Booksellers” Produced Manuscripts

Ross King on the Laborious Process of Bookmaking in the 15th Century

By Ross King | April 13, 2021

How History Has Failed to Tell the Story of the Gold<br> Rush Women

How History Has Failed to Tell the Story of the Gold
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Brian Castner on a the Not-So-Secret Role of Women in the Klondike

By Brian Castner | April 13, 2021

How Depression and Trauma Cast Multigenerational Shadows

How Depression and Trauma Cast Multigenerational Shadows

Alex Riley on Family History and the Evolution of Modern Psychiatry

By Alex Riley | April 13, 2021

On the Familiar Ghosts and Family Legacies of South Carolina’s Low Country

On the Familiar Ghosts and Family Legacies of South Carolina’s Low Country

J. Nicole Jones Considers a Lifetime of the Unexplained
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