August 18 – 22, 2025
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- Laurie Stone rewatches Paper Moon
- Angelina Mazza makes the case for Goodreads
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Rebecca Solnit on Meghann Riepenhoff’s Cyanotype Prints Made in Freezing Landscapes
“The processes of photography were liquid for most of the medium’s history...”
Making Sense of Santa, as a Science Reporter and a Parent
Nell Greenfieldboyce on Reason, Science, and Metaphorical Delights
What’s Old is New Again (and Again): On the Cyclical Nature of Nostalgia
Tobias Becker Explores Popular Culture’s Continued Revival of the Past
Micheal O’Siadhail on the Pleasure of Writing Poems by Hand
The Author of Desire Charts His Journey from Pencils to Typewriters to Computers and Back
The Power of Passivity: On Choosing to Do Nothing
Maura Lammers Considers the Role of Inaction in Fiction and in Real Life
Phyllis Rose on Writing About Real People in Nonfiction, Making Your Diaries Public, and More
Rumena Bužarovska Talks with the Author of The Year of Reading Proust
One Naomi, Two Naomis, Three: The Too-Real Experience of Reading Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger
Naomi J. Williams on Being Mistaken for Other Naomis in Art and Life
Hidden No More: Why Women’s Contributions to the Italian Renaissance Matter
Meredith K. Ray on the Importance of Broadening Our View of the Past
Gideon Lewis-Kraus: Everyone Needs to Read Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
The Must Read Book of the Current Moment
Pink Dystopia: Gabrielle Korn on How a Decade in Women’s Media Inspired Her Novel
“What no one said out loud was that it already did mean something—to other people’s bottom line.”
Boys Do Cry: How The Cure Helped Mainstream Male Emotion
Simon Price on the Making and Legacy of One of the Band’s Most Beloved Songs
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