July 17, 2025
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“It Was All in the Service of Not Wanting Queer People to Have to Justify Themselves.” Why Catherine Lacey Rewrote History in Biography of X
In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast
How Two Pieces of Art 50 Years Apart Helped Me Hate Cooking a Little Bit Less
Rosalynn Tyo on Semiotics of the Kitchen and Lessons in Chemistry
Alone on the Range: Victor LaValle on Lone Women’s Homesteaders, History, and Horror
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
From Volcanoes To Bathtubs: On the Many Uses and Forms of Pumice
Hettie Judah Explores the History and Science Behind Solidified Lava
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
"A kind of writing so rare and accomplished that it seems to erase the very nuts and bolts of its own construction"
Chris Wiggins on a History of Data From the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
Daisy Jones & the Six Balances Authenticity and Fantasy
The Author of Groupies on the Miniseries Adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Hit Novel
What Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” Tells Us About Memory Loss
Dasha Kiper on Understanding and Caring For Dementia Patients
A Pathless Wood: Navigating the Poetic Border Between Health and Harm
James Davis May on Poetry's Power to Indulge and Control Depression
Ren DeStefano on Female Serial Killers and Why She Suspects Everyone Might Have a Murder in Them
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
Julia Samuel on Transgenerational Trauma and Family Well-Being
In Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book
Nick Sonnenberg on How to Reduce Clutter and Enable Productivity
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
Catherine Lacey on Playing the Long-Game for Her Fiction
“I’m making a body of work over a lifetime.”
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