April 21, 2025
- Applying the idea of relative pitch to translation
- The meaninglessness of corporate storytelling
- On what’s left of Outside
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Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad
“Even as she does not mean to comfort, I feel her — here, still right here, to tell us how it really is.”
A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID
Jessie Chaffee: “For a moment, I am the girl, her existence of gray monotony broken by a sliver of sunlight while others revel in the day’s abundance.”
On the Best (Worst) Best Man Speech Ever (at My Super Mario-Themed Wedding)
Mike Drucker Finds a Little Humor in Life’s Many Setbacks
Can Writers Ever Remember How to Read For Fun?
Amy Shearn on Accidentally Killing Her Book Group and Rediscovering the Joys of Getting Lost in a Story
On the Challenge of Writing a Sequel to a Twenty-Year-Old Novel
Lee Martin Needed a New Story to Explain the Ending of “The Bright Forever”
From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April
Featuring Work by Faiz Siddiqui, Heather Christle, Ada Limón, and More
Ten New Children’s Books That Reveal the Wondrous Act of Storytelling
Caroline Carlson Rounds Up Some Great Kids’ Books Out in April
On the Episode That Changed Ira Glass’s This American Life Forever
Or, On the Importance of Fact-Checking
Gatsby, Bluebeard, and the Roys Walk Into a TBR: April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
New Sagas and Standalones from Olivie Blake, Nghi Vo, Isaac Fellman, and More
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