August 18 – 22, 2025
- The pleasures of lap-swimming at a bargain gym in East LA
- Laurie Stone rewatches Paper Moon
- Angelina Mazza makes the case for Goodreads
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Too Often, Society Equates a Woman’s Mistakes with Her Character
Clare Fisher on Teaching and Writing About Incarcerated Women
Svetlana Alexievich in Praise
of Maxim Osipov
On the Russian Doctor Who Treats His Characters Like His Patients
Phantoms
Christian Kiefer
"Ray Takahashi returned in August. By then we had put the whole thing behind us, or tried to, whatever concern or even guilt we might have felt replaced by that mixture of jubilation and despair brought on by the war’s end, for our boys were coming home and the war had changed them. Some held only absence where an arm or leg had once been; some were broken by experiences we could not see and never would."
How Did Conspiracy Theories Come to Dominate American Culture?
Thomas Milan Konda Untangles Our Obsession Complicated Plots
The Wrong Kind of Redemption: A Civil War That Never Ended
Philip Dray on Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s New Book and the “Glorious Failure” of Reconstruction
Serial Killer As Instagram Influencer? On Killing Eve‘s Cool Girl Assassin
Rachel Vorona Cote: "It can be dangerous to hold someone, fictional or real, in esteem for superficial reasons."
Red State Blues: Traveling in Transition
On Samantha Allen's Real Queer America and Venturing Beyond Comfort Zones
The Misunderstood Consequences of Electroconvulsive Therapy
Mary Cregan on Doing Whatever It Takes to Deal with Depression
Bright Lights, Big City, New Bookstore
Talking to Benjamin Rybeck, Bookseller at the Center for Fiction
“Some Female Cats and People”
Olivia Clare
"For we did love them, which is to say we watched them. Knew their habits and spoke gently and quietly about them. Loved them and did not ask for love in return."
At the Birth of the Mexican MeToo Movement, a Statement From
Women in Publishing
A Collective Call from Mujeres Juntas Marabunta
Read from the Graphic Novelization of
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood's Classic Novel Reimagined by Renee Nault
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