April 7 – 11, 2025
- Emily Polk considers bees and grief
- Art Spiegelman remembers Jules Feiffer
- On the reception of non-Western literature in the Western world
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Every Poem I Write Is About Ted Cruz
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague on Santería, Poetry, and Not Feeling Latino "Enough"
How Science Fiction Redefines Who We Are, and What We’re Becoming
On Technology and the Reinvention of Selfhood
Interview with a Bookstore: Copperfield’s Books
How An Independent Bookstore Contributes to a Healthy Community
How Teju Cole Helped Me Make Peace With the Nigerian Scam Artist
Ijeoma Oluo on Reconciling her Nigerian-American Identity
Fashion Designer Charles Harbison on the Books that Influence Him
From Elie Wiesel to Patti Smith, James Baldwin, and the Bible
The Houseguest
Kim Brooks
“Stephen Field was sitting at his desk well after midnight, reading letters from strangers pleading to be saved.”
In Search of the Darkest Cult in American History
Laura Elizabeth Woollett on Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple
Simchat Torah, Scotch, and Feeling “Ugly Lonely”
"The Burden," A Short Story by the Late Alan Cheuse
Can We Only Know Ourselves Through Another?
Sallie Tisdale looks to Socrates and Hannah Arendt in Order to See Herself
Tuesday Nights in 1980
Molly Prentiss
“BODY: A tight torso, flexing with a million muscle groups. Neighborhoods connected by taxi blood. Hefty, hard shoulders of Harlem, strong pectorals of the Upper East and West Sides, the spine of Central Park and the messy lungs of Midtown.”
Paris Vagabond
Jean-Paul Clébert
“The zone. The Zone is gradually disappearing, like a grease spot being vigorously rubbed. At Porte de Pantin, through the mounds with chalky paths running down their sides that mark the site of the old fortifications (quite invisible today), workmen are carving out a railroad-like trench for a planned expressway.”
Karl Ove Knausgaard on Failure, Memory, and Writing 20 Pages a Day
John Freeman catches up with the My Struggle author in Japan
Adam Gopnik on the Ur-Gentrification Story of Place des Vosges
“It soon became apparent they were worth more as residences than as manufacturing spaces.”
The Conflicted Early Feminism of Louisa Catherine Adams
On the Former First Lady's story, “The Adventures of a Nobody”
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