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The Book That Changed How We Think About Rape

Fifty years on, what lessons endure from Against Our Will?
Claire Bond Potter
Black-and-white photo of Susan Brownmiller with a copy of her book Against Our Will
Interviews

László Krasznahorkai

The Nobel laureate insists on the reality of the present
Hari Kunzru
Essays

Trump Is Only a Symptom

The crisis that America can’t change at the ballot box
Rana Dasgupta
Books

Thomas Pynchon Is Angry

In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
Richard Beck
Grayscale AI rendering of road-rage victim Christopher Pelkey
Essays

When AI Speaks for the Dead

A murder victim recently addressed a defendant with the help of AI. What are the limits of our new reality?
Patricia J. Williams
Essays

A Unified Theory of the Handbag

Was an accessory the secret to evolution?
Audrey Wollen
Sepia-toned image of Mary Oliver by the sea
Books

Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?

Shame seemed like an obstacle to appreciating the poet. Instead, it became the key to understanding her work.
Maggie Millner
Essays

What Is a Poetic Novel?

A newly translated manifesto
Hélène Bessette,
translated by Kate Briggs
Essays

A Moral Education

In praise of filth
Garth Greenwell
Interviews

Aminatta Forna

On suffering, trauma, and resilience
James Surowiecki
Essays

A Common Seagull

On making art and mourning
Sheila Heti
Books

Metafiction and #MeToo

A new way to write trauma
Maggie Doherty
Painting of an abstract storm
Objects of Desire

Rubber Bands

How can we extend love?
Catherine Barnett
A Closer Look

Langston Hughes's "China"

Why the previously unpublished poem is a revelation
Selina Lai-Henderson
Folio

Resisting Category

A folio of Spanish-language fiction in translation

An Annie Ernaux essay, only in print

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Fiction

Into the Light

Rachel Cusk
Fiction

Welcome to the Club

Samanta Schweblin,
translated by Megan McDowell

From the Archives

From the Archives

E. M. Forster

The novelist valued friendship above all else
Robert Giroux
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Ibsen the Pioneer

Stella Adler
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Pynchon as Satirist: To Write, To Mean

Alfred Mac Adam
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State and Vine

On Thomas Pynchon's Vineland
Richard Powers

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What “After the Hunt” Gets Right

I left academia. Luca Guadagnino’s new film reminds me why.
Annie Julia Wyman
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Shakespeare and Company Interviews

Neige Sinno

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Adam Biles
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When Fact-Checking Meant Something

A new novel captures a bygone era in New York journalism
Susan Choi