July 14 – 18, 2025
- Mira Ptacin examines the poetry of found lists
- How ICE hit lists endanger student protesters
- Ursula K. Le Guin’s forgotten YA trilogy
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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.”
How Women and Girls Struggle to Pursue Their Interest In Science
Melissa L. Sevigny on the Need to Tell More Stories About Ordinary Female Scientists
Rebecca Makkai Has Qualms with True Crime Media (and Makes That Critique in Her New Novel)
In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books
From This Day Backward: Avery Carpenter Forrey on Social Media and Memory
“If we can access memories with our thumbs, why bother accurately searing them into our brains?”
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