September 22, 2025
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- An interview with Sheila Heti
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Dan Halpern, Jill Bialosky, and Carl Phillips Remember the Former
“Guns Are Safer For Children Than Laundry Detergent”
Miriam Cohen
He had a gun. There was a gun in the house. A gun a gun a gun.
The Call of the Wild: Confronting Nature and Existential Terror
On Literary Disco with Tod Goldberg, Julia Pistell, and Rider Strong
Emily Bell on What It Was Like to Edit Lucia Berlin
With Kendra Winchester and Autumn Privett on Reading Women
Why Are American Men So
Obsessed with Steak?
Joshua Specht on Class, Gender, and the Consumption of Beef
What Would It Mean to Live in
a World Without Stories?
Alexis Wright on the Systemic Weaponization of Silence
Damian Barr Moves From Memoir to Fiction and Finds Inspiration in a Real Life Crime
"You want the whole thing to be historic—but these stories are hideously contemporary."
We Have Always Loved
Ranking Things, Particularly American Presidents
Douglas Brinkley Offers a Brief History of Political Listicles
Kanako Nishi on Writing Gender, Power, and the Pain of Others
"I believe that lines should be capable of changing shape in many ways."
On the Unsung Lives
of the Chinese Laborers Who Built the Railroad
When Two Railroads—and the Migrant Workers Who Built Them—Met
The Unpassing
Chia-Chia Lin
The days were rapidly lengthening; I could barely remember the spun-out dawns and twilights of winter. But although the nights were short, they felt long and wild. We had rearranged the beds again, each one against a different wall, and Pei-Pei and I were sleeping with our heads pointed to the same corner.
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