What Happens When You Live Strictly According to the Original Constitution in Present Day New York City?
In Which A.J. Jacobs Carries a Musket Around Manhattan
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“Ms. Munro has created tales that limn entire lifetimes in a handful of pages.”
What Comes For Us All: Read Elias Canetti on the Many Guises of Death
On Those Who End Life and Those Whose Lives End
We’re Not in Winesburg Anymore: On the Literature of the Small Town
Carolyn Kuebler Recommends Kathryn Davis, Linda Legarde Grover, Jon McGregor, and More
The Secret Master: On Translating the Forgotten Argentine Writer Ángel Bonomini
Jordan Landsman Remembers the Writer Admired by Jorge Luis Borges, Alberto Manguel, and Others
Paternal Instinct: Why Men Go Gaga Over Babies, Too
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on the Biological and Neurological Impulses That Fuel Parent-Child Bonds
The Yinzers of Glasgow: On the Scottish Origins of Pittsburgh’s Unique Dialect
Ed Simon Demystifies and Reclaims Pittsburghese
Tearing Away at the Time Escaping: Lou Stoppard on Pairing Photographs with Annie Ernaux’s Exteriors
Rebecca Bengal Talks to the Curator and Writer About Photographic and Fictional Truth
What Freudian Psychoanalysis Gets Wrong About Trans Identity
Jennifer Finney Boylan Considers “Penis Envy” In the Context of Dysphoria
“I Enjoy It Somethin’ Terrible.” Studs Terkel Talks to Babe Secoli About Her Work as a Supermarket Checker
From “Working,” the Classic Oral History of Americans' Working Lives
Sisterhood of the Traveling Stories: On the Literature of Fictional Sisters
Kimberly King Parsons Recommends Ruth Madievsky, Cecily Wong, Vauhini Vara, and More
Four Must-See Museums For Bibliophiles This Summer
Bob Eckstein Recommends Some Unmissable Sights For Writers and Book Lovers Across America
A Quiet Roar: Wendy Doniger on Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song
“True freedom may lie in the art that can express, deeply embedded in ordinary family life, the political attachments that shape and misshape that life.”
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