August 6, 2025
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- Niela Orr profiles Jamaica Kincaid
- Tao Lin shares parts of his college diary
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5 Novels That Embody the Lived Experience of Womanhood
From Elena Ferrante to Weike Wang, Life is in the Details
Deborah Eisenberg: “It Might Be Time To Rely More Heavily On Our Irrational Capacities”
The Author of Your Duck Is My Duck in Conversation With Paul Holdengraber
Heartbreaker
Claudia Dey
"This is what I know: She left last night. My mother, Billie Jean Fontaine, stood in our front hallway with a stale cigarette in one hand and her truck keys in the other."
Kristen Arnett: Ain’t No Party Like a Library Party
There's Something For Everyone at Your Local Library (and If There Isn't, Just Ask)
White Artists Need to Start Addressing White Supremacy in Their Work
Those Who Benefit From Racism Should Be on the Front Lines Fighting It
On the Kidnapped African Boy Who Became a German Philosopher
Kwame Anthony Appiah Tells the Tale of Amo Afer
When Art Imitates Art: Portraits of Literary Characters by Famous Artists
From Picasso's Don Quixote to Lichtenstein's Tintin
When the Government Tried (and Failed) to Come for a Japanese-American Journalist
From the Late James Omura's Memoir of Internment and Repression
Magdalena Mountain
Robert Michael Pyle
"On Magdalena Mountain, at the base of certain boulders, the winter forage of little rock rabbits, called pikas, lies curing in the sun."
Very Short Stories From New Micro
Nancy Stohlman, Pamela Painter, and Kathy Fish
"It was squishy under my feet and at first I thought it was a wad of napkins. But as the crowds cleared, it became obvious. It looked just like me if I’d been made out of cornstalks and had button eyes."
5 Mid-Century Commonwealth Writers You Should Read
From Barbara Pym to Barbara Comyns Patrick DeWitt Picks His Favorites
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