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Julie Sedivy on Amplifying the Pleasure of Language
“I feel an extra jolt of delight when I read a sentence that achieves something out of the ordinary.”
The Surprising Power of Piet Mondrian’s Lesser-Known Early Paintings
Nicholas Fox Weber Reflects on Mondrian’s Still Lifes and Black-and-White Work
Love Learned Through Pain: On Why We Need to Record and Respect Grief
Ariana Reines Remembers Her Mother's Passing in a World of Increasing Technological Numbness
Big Lies Need Even Bigger Fact Checking
Maris Kreizman on What We Really Need to Do to Combat All the Political Lying
Sol Yurick on Trying to Find Any Trace of His Novel, The Warriors, on the Big Screen
“I looked for my novel on the screen. I found the skeleton of it intact. Its revolutionary content was missing.”
From Torpedo Bras to Whale Tails: A Brief History of Women’s Underwear
Nina Edwards Explores the Popular Reception of Thongs, Bras, Boy Shorts and Other Intimate Items
A Geological Time Bomb: Remembering the Night That Yellowstone Exploded
Randall K. Wilson Considers the Impact of the 1959 Earthquake That Shook Our Most Famous National Park
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“A timely, distinctive description of the haunted lives of refugees.”
The Right Kind of Doll: Sarah Moss on the Prides and Pressures of Girlhood
“You knew... that taste was indistinguishable from morality and yours wasn’t good enough.”
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Simple Yet Profound: On the Timelessness of Aesop’s Fables
Robin Waterfield Explores Some Little-Known Aspects of These Ancient Bite-Sized Tales
Stephen Markley on The Deluge to Come
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
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