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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There is a bell hooks Book for Every Season of Life
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah on the Liberatory Possibilities of Sexual Experience
Adriana Trigiani Reads from Her Sun-Drenched Novel, The Good Left Undone
From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast
Sara Baume on the Uncanny Feeling of Discovering a Book with the Same Title as Her Own
“When I set about the task of reading Henrichsen’s Seven Steeples I did not expect to find any kinship.”
“Spring’s begun dividing her storks and cranes among us.” New Poetry from Ukraine by Natalia Beltchenko
Translated by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk
Was George Eliot Wrong to Think Books Could Make People Better?
Pamela Erens on Middlemarch and the Moral Value of Fiction
“I Know You Understand.” A Letter Across Time from Celia Paul to Fellow Artist Gwen John
"Please help me, Gwen, to work my way through these feelings of panic and fear.”
How the Disappearance of the Dinosaurs Created an Hospitable World for Humans
Riley Black on the Causes and Consequences of the Great Extinction
Diving Into the “Uncanny Despair” of the Cruise Ship Narrative
Lara Williams on David Foster Wallace, Wabi-sabi, and the Luxurious Veneer of Decay
Writing a Novel About a Half-Remembered Place, with the Help of Google Street View
Soon Wiley on Virtually Strolling the Streets of Seoul
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