September 10, 2025
- The myth of scientific objectivity
- Nicholás Medina Mora on Mexican fiction, made in America
- How a county in Oregon failed its public library
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Our American Rome: On the Case of Peter Thiel vs. Gawker
Andrew Keen Talks to Ryan Holiday About the Power of Conspiracy
“Fear is Good Quality Control.” Colson Whitehead on the Writer’s Life
"I'd rather have a fucked-up paragraph than no paragraph at all."
The World’s Smallest Publishing House: A Typewriter in a Bookstore
Michael Gustafson on Opening Literati Bookstore
Letter to an Emerging Indigenous Writer
"If you have the gift, you’re called upon to use it for the People."
Wendy Xu on the Impossible Complexity of Immigrant Love
Lives of the Poets: Peter Mishler in Conversation with the Author of Phrasis
How I Learned to Write About My Patients… Without Breaking Their Trust
Dr. Daniela Lamas on Consent, Empathy, and Obscuring Details
Feast Days
Ian MacKenzie
“Elizabeth Bishop, a person I admire, once lived in Brazil. She wrote a book about the country for the Life World Library. She fought with the publisher over points of style, and complained theatrically about it in letters to Robert Lowell.”
On Moderata Fonte’s Feminist Reimagining of 16th-Century Venice
Female Friendships and Single Women in The Merits of Women
The Gunners
Rebecca Kauffman
“Mikey Callahan discovered something about himself when he was six years old. Students from his first-grade class were taken one at a time from the classroom and ushered to the gymnasium for standard medical tests.”
Masha Gessen: Inside the Gulags of the Soviet Union
By the Time Stalin Died, 2.5 Million People Were Being Held in Camps
At the March for Our Lives, Registering the Next Generation of Voters
Courtney Angela Brkic Heads to Washington
Writers of the Zodiac: Bold Aries, from Kathy Acker to Tristan Tzara
Introducing Your Monthly Tour of Literary Astrology
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