August 18 – 22, 2025
- The pleasures of lap-swimming at a bargain gym in East LA
- Laurie Stone rewatches Paper Moon
- Angelina Mazza makes the case for Goodreads
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We Are All Witches: Elizabeth Willis and Nancy Bowen on the Contemporary Echoes of Centuries-Old Fears
E. Tracy Grinnell Talks to the Poet-Artist Team Behind Spectral Evidence
All of Us Strangers Confronts the Dangers of Spinning Trauma Into Art
Andrew Quintana on Director Andrew Haigh’s New Masterpiece
The Annotated Nightstand: What Sabrina Orah Mark Is Reading Now and Next
Featuring Daisy Hildyard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Nina McLaughlin and More
Lydia Kiesling on Making the Lists—or Not
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
Tyriek White on Juxtaposing Brooklyn’s History With Lived Experience
In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast
How Long Will Schindler’s List Endure as a Public Memorial to The Holocaust?
Paul Morton Revisits Spielberg’s Controversial Film, 30 Years Later
Between Anxiety and Hope: On the Cautious Optimism of Lewis Thomas
Sukhada Tatke Remembers the Essayist and His Scientific and Creative Vision
The Complicated Experience of Reading a Late Friend’s Novel
“I learned later that he had left a piece of paper with four stark words on it: ’Suicide notes are tacky.‘”
Mythologized Impartiality: A Conversation About the Supreme Court’s Checkered Past and Future
Daniel Kiel and Lori Ringhand Speak with Stanford University Press
Jane Smiley on What It’s Like to Have Your Book Banned
In Conversation with Tai Caputo From Iowa City’s City High School Student Paper
David Remnick on the Continued Gift of the Written Word
This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso
The Woefully Neglected (and Partially Unfilmable) Creations of Alasdair Gray
Jonathan Russell Clark on Poor Things and Its Adaptation
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