July 7-11, 2025
- Will humans evolve into crabs? Michael Garfield explains
- Mark Z. Danielewski’s unfinished novel
- The kayfabe of American politics
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Reading and Writing My Way Through the AIDS Crisis
Matthew Cheney Remembers the Books That Helped Him Survive
Nico Muhly on Music as Language and Writers in Paris
Part Two of the Composer's Conversation with Paul Holdengraber
How the Mother of Dada Made
History of Her Life
Images from Hannah Höch's Master Work, Life Portrait
On the Road to Cleveland: Trump Speaks to the Werewolf in Us
Our Correspondent at the RNC Files an Early Report
This Must Be The Place
Maggie O'Farrell
“There is a man. He’s standing on the back step, rolling a cigarette. The day is typically unstable, the garden lush and shining, the branches weighty with still-falling rain. There is a man and the man is me.”
My Mother, Monterey, and the Haunted Beauty of Aquariums
Lindsay Hatton on the Faded Beauty of Her Hometown
On the Journals of Famous Writers
Dustin Illingworth Eavesdrops on Flannery O'Connor, Susan Sontag, and More
The Grumpy Librarian: For Fans of Canadians and Enemies of Humor
In Which Short Fiction's Beloved Uncle is Left Out in the Cold
Five Books Making News This Week: D.C., The Internet, and Helen Gurley Brown
Jennifer Close, Virginia Heffernan, Brooke Hauser, and More
Maggie’s Plan
Rebecca Miller
“The kids remove their shoes and greet their mother with great affection. Maggie watches this as she removes her penny loafers. Justine is very tender with her mother. Another person (to the kids): I made you a nice snack and you are allowed to watch one single episode of something ghastly while eating it. But no fighting about what it is, Paul. Justine gets to choose.”
Why Calvin and Hobbes is Great Literature
On the Ontology of a Stuffed Tiger and Finding the Whole World in a Comic
When an Internet Skeptic Takes to Twitter
Sven Birkerts on Contradiction and Tweeting Against the Tide
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