August 7, 2025
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Chloe Michelle Howarth on How to End a Piece of Writing
“After the last page, it’s as much their story as it is mine.”
The Queer Relationship That Powered Rachel Carson’s Nature Writing
Lida Maxwell on Dorothy Freeman, “Silent Spring,” and Rejecting Heteronormativity
Hala Alyan on Diaspora, the Limits of Healing, and Gaza as the Conscience of the World
The Author of “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home” in Conversation With Sahar Delijani
Painting the Revolution:
The Artists Who Joined the Fight For American Independence
Zara Anishanslin on the Forgotten History of the Transatlantic Artists Who Promoted the Patriot Cause
Flashes of Brilliance: The 19th-Century Innovations That Shaped Modern Photography
Anika Burgess on Daguerreotypes, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Darkroom Dangers
Give It All Away? On the Literature of Effective Altruism
Ben Brooks Recommends Dave Eggers, Neel Mukherjee, Ann Napolitano and More
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
"The novel treats its characters like hogs to the slaughter."
Ed Park on An Oral History of Atlantis
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
Nature’s Strangest Psychedelic is Everywhere: The Ever-Surprising History of DMT
Andrew R. Gallimore on the Alien Power of a Revolutionary Drug
Muscle Beach: Surfing with Bonnie Tsui
Mickie Meinhardt Profiles the Author of “On Muscle,” on a Surfboard
With Love, Dad: On Finally Meeting My Father, the Novelist Austin Clarke
Darcy Ballantyne on the Long Process of Getting to Know an Enigmatic Father
How Belle Époque Paris Captured the Hearts of American Travelers and Artists
Jennifer Dasal on the French Capital's 19th-Century Architectural and Cultural Revival
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