August 11, 2025
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- Why AI will never understand human morality
- Roberto Bedoya on Norma Cole and the poetics of place
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Not Like Other Dykes: On Femininity, Basketball, and the Caitlin Clark Effect
Mac Crane Examines What It Means to Perform Identity on the Court
Genre Euphoria: Why More Poets Should Read (and Write) Romance Fiction
Elaina Ellis on the Basic Human Need to Tell Love Stories of All Stripes
In Praise of the Paranormal Curiosity of Charles Fort, Patron Saint of Cranks
Ed Simon on the Porous, Ever-Shifting Boundaries Between Science and Speculation
Local Outsiders: On Growing Up Black in Appalachia
Katrina M. Powell Explores the Long History of Migration and Displacement in a Majority White Region
Britain’s Forgotten Pandemic: What We Failed to Learn from the Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease
Scott Preston on How Botched Policy Responses Disease Led to Political Extremism
Viet Thanh Nguyen on Remembering and Forgetting
From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner
Looking For Elaine May: On Tracking Down an Elusive Comedy Legend
Carrie Courogen Considers Balancing the Demands of Biography With a Fan’s Enthusiasm
Alan Felsenthal on Precision in Poems, the Mundane as Sacred, and Capturing the “Feeling” of Life
A Conversation with the Author of “Hereafter”
Carvell Wallace on What Writing Taught Him About His Life
In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
Ten Debut LGBTQ+ Authors on the Books That Shaped Them As Writers
Jiaming Tang, Jessie Ren Marshall, Brittany Rogers, Alana Saab and Many More Reflect on Their Formative Texts
Queen Christina, Lesbian Icon? On Sweden’s Delightfully Nonconformist Monarch
Eleanor Medhurst Considers the Aesthetic and Practice of Queerness in 17th-Century Europe
How Eva Le Gallienne Revolutionized Early 20th-Century Theater
Barrie Kreinik on Reviving a Queer Icon of the Roaring Twenties
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