January 13 – 17, 2025
- Daegan Miller considers Hannah Arendt’s poetry
- Teju Cole on photographs of the Los Angeles fires
- The myriad abuse allegations against Neil Gaiman
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Simon Sebag Montefiore on Ancient Star Wars, Pierced Penises, and Steam Baths
The Author of The World Explores the Lives of Roman and Mesoamerican Dynasties
On Jane Austen and The Lovable Unlikability of Emma Woodhouse
Emily Harding Can't Separate the Independent Streak from the Austen Worldview
Kate Lebo on Making and Remaking Recipes On and Off the Page
“Writing a recipe and reading a recipe are both acts of translation.”
“Outside the Coordinates.” On Crafting Nonfiction That Takes Risks
Laura Tillman Talks to Her Mentor and Former Teacher, Suzannah Lessard
How a Fabulist Painting Showed Jenny Fran Davis the Cover of Dykette
On the Magical-Realist Painter John Wilde, Butches and Femmes, and How the Author Saw Herself In An Artwork
On Xi Jinping’s Purges and the Contradictions of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
“Too much fear can paralyze the bureaucracy.”
Author Susanna Kaysen Revisits Girl, Interrupted 30 Years After Its Publication
“There was enough blank space in it for people to insert themselves.”
Why the Idea of Western Civilization is More Myth Than History
Naoíse Mac Sweeney on Writing a New History of the West
Kwame Alexander on the Legacies of Love Passed Down Through Food
Plus a Free Recipe for 7 Up Pound Cake from the Author of Why Fathers Cry at Night
Time For a Change: Rachel Louise Snyder on the Beginning of the End of Her Family
“No child or parent abuse (verbal or physical). Control your anger and your words.”
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