Essays

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Lorraine Hansberry’s Queer Archive

The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unexamined. But she wanted you to read it.
Alec Pollak
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Notes on Affirmation

SFFA v. Harvard and the quest for acceptance
Thomas Dai
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This Part of Our Lives Is Over

Sending my daughter to Japan
Emily Bernard
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New York Anabasis

In praise of the return to the surface
Rachel Eisendrath
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Unfathomable Life

As a philosopher, I thought I understood risk. Then I tried to get pregnant.
Anna Hartford
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James Baldwin in Turkey

How Istanbul changed his career—and his life
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

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A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour

Vita Sackville-West
September 1, 1929
From the Archives

Visibility in Fiction

Edith Wharton
March 1, 1929
From the Archives

The Great American Novel

Edith Wharton
July 1, 1927
A painting of a woman reading at a table.
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How Should One Read a Book?

Read as if one were writing it
Virginia Woolf
September 1, 1926