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The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson
From Patrick Weil's Cundill Prize-Nominated The Madman in the White House
Ann Patchett on Oscar Hijuelos’ Lush, Elegiac Novel Full of Music and Sex
"Bless the novels that provide accounts of the world that came before."
Amanda Montei on Seven Novels That Explore Consent and Coercion
The Author of Touched Out Recommends J.M. Coetzee, Kathy Acker, and More
Black Girl Group Magic: The Marvelettes on How They Became Motown Music Legends
"The next thing that we knew 'Please Mr. Postman' was number one on the Billboard chart"
Derangement and Estrangement: On Poetic Turbulence in Translation
Joyelle McSweeney Considers Hussein Barghouthi's The Blue Light and Kim Hyesoon's Phantom Pain Wings
Hilary Leichter on the Partnership Between Reader and Writer
"When a book arrives somewhere emotionally moving, it’s because the reader has helped put it there."
Robots Are People, Too: On the Ways Writers Use Non-Human Characters to Tell Human Stories
Allegories, Companions, Advisor, Otherworldly, and Outsiders
What A Long History of Terror Tells Us About Modern France
Nabila Ramdani on the Relationship Between Terrorism and the French State
How Recycled American Batteries Pollute Communities Around the World
From James Morton Turner's Cundill Prize-Nominated Charged
Liberatory Art: What Passages Achieves in the History of Cinema and Desire
”Passages can mean so much without us strip-mining its parts for parts.”
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