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Wildcatters and Hell-Raisers: On Being a Writer From Texas

Wildcatters and Hell-Raisers: On Being a Writer From Texas

Kimberly Garza Unpacks the Mythology of the Lone Star State

By Kimberly Garza | August 10, 2022

Meeting Language at Its Most Elemental Place: Belinda Huijuan Tang on Re-Learning Chinese

Meeting Language at Its Most Elemental Place: Belinda Huijuan Tang on Re-Learning Chinese

“When we learn a new language, we may expand our notion about what truths can exist in the world.”

By Belinda Huijuan Tang | August 9, 2022

Will McGrath on Traveling Through Rural Maine With Young Children

Will McGrath on Traveling Through Rural Maine With Young Children

“I marveled at how much older they’d grown since we first entered this place.”

By Will McGrath | August 8, 2022

18th-Century Vienna Through the Eyes of a Woman Traveler

18th-Century Vienna Through the Eyes of a Woman Traveler

Angus Robertson on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Experiences in the Heart of the Holy Roman Empire

By Angus Robertson | August 4, 2022

Return to San Sebastian: Novel Research As Road Trip in Puerto Rico

Return to San Sebastian: Novel Research As Road Trip in Puerto Rico

Life Imitates Art as Leah Franqui Travels Home With Her Father

By Leah Franqui | July 25, 2022

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Finding Kinship with Eve Babitz and Joan Didion

By Liska Jacobs | July 19, 2022

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Lindy Elkins-Tanton on the Books That Inspired Her Journeys

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What It Was Like on a Cruise Ship the Night Before COVID Shut the World Down

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On the Zaandam, Where the Band Continued to Play

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Brazilian Rhythms, Queer Longing, and Caio Fernando Abreu: A Literary Playlist

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Bruna Dantas Lobato on the Music That Helps Her Translate

By Bruna Dantas Lobato | June 17, 2022

“I do not like people whose principal aim is pleasure.” When James Baldwin Went to Fire Island

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Jack Parlett on Where the Iconic Writer Wrote Another Country

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Art Buchwald in Paris: Fan Letters from Steinbeck, and an Invite to the Most Famous Wedding in the World

Art Buchwald in Paris: Fan Letters from Steinbeck, and an Invite to the Most Famous Wedding in the World

On the Legendary Humorist’s Time with Ben Bradlee, Humphrey Bogart, and the Windsors

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Charles McGrath on the Ritualizing of Idleness

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How a 1970s Literary Travelogue Can Transform Us All

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