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Francine Prose on the Unfinished Sexual Revolution of the 1970s

Francine Prose on the Unfinished Sexual Revolution of the 1970s

“We were not supposed to notice the gap between what we were supposed to feel and what we felt.”

By Francine Prose | June 17, 2024

What a Young John Muir Learned In the Wisconsin Wilderness

What a Young John Muir Learned In the Wisconsin Wilderness

Amanda Bellows on the Scottish-Born Naturalist’s Early Years in the United States

By Amanda Bellows | June 14, 2024

What I Learned From Living With Joan Didion

What I Learned From Living With Joan Didion

Cory Leadbeater on His Life-Changing Friendship With a Literary Icon

By Cory Leadbeater | June 12, 2024

A Woman’s Place is in the Ring: On Gender, Performativity and the Unreal

A Woman’s Place is in the Ring: On Gender, Performativity and the Unreal

Rufi Thorpe Considers Wrestling As a Way of Revealing the Inner Self

By Rufi Thorpe | June 11, 2024

How the Labor of Enslaved Black Men Built the White House

How the Labor of Enslaved Black Men Built the White House

Corey Mead on the Construction of America's New Capital City

By Corey Mead | June 5, 2024

The Worst Town Names in America—And Other Useless Maps

The Worst Town Names in America—And Other Useless Maps

Featuring Five of Michael Howe’s Most Terrible Maps

By HarperCollins | May 22, 2024

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Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

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From Austen to Larkin: Why Writers Could Be More Prone to Hypochondria

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Caroline Crampton Considers the Intersection of Creative Pursuits and Health Anxiety

By Caroline Crampton | April 26, 2024

What a Series of Killings in Rural Georgia Revealed About Early 20th-Century America

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Earl Swift on the Continuing Regime of Racial Terror in the Post-Civil War American South

By Earl Swift | April 25, 2024

Unsolvable Puzzles: Anna Shechtman on the Feminist Psychology Behind Crosswords

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Rod Nordland Considers the Enduring Mysteries of Cancer's Effects on the Human Body

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Time-Slips and Body Hopping: Eight Great Novels of Time Travel

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How Cells’ Complex Choreography Sustains—and Ends—Human Life

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Novelist Sanaë Lemoine, In Praise of the Sheet Pan

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By Olga Massov and Sanaë Lemoine | March 6, 2024

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