February 18, 2025
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- On what it means to be a highly sensitive person
- How pop culture became queer
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“Hear Our Defeats”
Laurent Gaudé, trans. Alison Anderson
"Today the city is singing, exulting in the passage of its emperor, with Wingate by his side—and he wonders what a victory is, when no battle has been won."
Some Hilarious Illustrations from America’s First Bestselling Diet Book
Lulu Hunt Peters Invented Calorie Counting and Let her Nephew Draw the Pictures
This Science Fiction Novelist Created a Feminist Language from Scratch
There's Even a Word For Emotional Labor!
Samanta Schweblin: There’s No Place Like Home, Including Home Itself
The Author of Mouthful of Birds on Being Compared to Kafka (Among Other Things)
Alice Munro Helped Me Finish My Story (And I Didn’t Even Know It)
Chris Power on Unconscious Literary Influences
Read an Extract from Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan, Winner of This Year’s T. S. Eliot Prize
"You have been thinking of the building opposite at night, the lights / Going off one by one, a diminished Mondrian"
Into a Crueler America: Two Border Crossings, 30 Years Apart
Reyna Grande on a Chance Encounter at the San Antonio Airport
A Brief History of Children’s Books: Nasty, Brutish, and Short
Jennifer Traig on the Bizarre Violence of Early Kid Lit
On the Problems of Changing Style, Novel to Novel
Tim Johnston Finds Long Lost Advice from Raymond Carver
Something Like Breathing
Angela Readman
"Bunny Tyler believed in God and Tupperware. I’m not sure which she believed in more. Wherever she went, she carried a duck-egg handbag containing a Bible, a revolutionary cheese grater, and a storage pot. One hand remained on the clasp, ready to whip out the contents at any given moment, should anyone need spiritual guidance."
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