July 17, 2025
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One Decade, Two Writers, Many Actors, and Finally My Book Became a Movie
Mark Haskell Smith on Adapting His Book Salty for the Big Screen
Scenes from an Emergency Clinic in the Sonoran Desert
On Death in the Borderlands and Who is Allowed to Grieve
Worlds from the Word’s End
Joanna Walsh
“It’s the old story: It’s not you, it’s me. Or, rather, it’s the place we’re at.”
A Difficult Balance: Am I a Writer or a Teacher?
Kyoko Mori Tries to Make Peace with Her Divided Self
10 College Courses to Read Along With This Semester (From Your Couch)
Object Lessons in Vicarious Reading
How Women Experience Beauty: A Reading List
From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to The Book of Judith, Recommendations
from Sofi Oksanen
The Miracles of Serena Williams: Black Sainthood Will Not Fix White America
Brandon Taylor on the Greatest Tennis Player Who Ever Lived
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Was Almost a Plain Old Western
The Sneaky Literary Influences Behind a Modern American Classic
5 Books Making News this Week: Spies, Second Wives, and the South
John le Carré, Lily Tuck, Jesmyn Ward, and More
Dinner at the Center of the Earth
Nathan Englander
“It’s never about you. Neither attack, nor counterattack. Not the three boys kidnapped, surely dead, or the child murdered in the forest, burned alive.”
Salman Rushdie’s First Love Was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
The Goden House Author on 5 Books that Have Defined his Life
The Most Important Skill I Learned at Art School: How to Bullshit
Chelsea Martin on the Lessons We Take From a Fine Arts Degree
90 Lines For John Ashbery’s 90th Birthday
In Memory of a Great American Poet, We're Reposting Birthday Wishes From July
“Here in a State of Tectonic Tension,” A Poem by Lawrence Joseph
The Decay Apparently / Has Frightened the Smart Money Away
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