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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

László Krasznahorkai

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

Trump Is Only a Symptom

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

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

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

A Unified Theory of the Handbag

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

Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?

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

What Is a Poetic Novel?

A newly translated manifesto
Hélène Bessette,
translated by Kate Briggs

A Moral Education

In praise of filth
Garth Greenwell

Aminatta Forna

On suffering, trauma, and resilience
James Surowiecki

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

Rubber Bands

How can we extend love?
Catherine Barnett

Langston Hughes's "China"

Why the previously unpublished poem is a revelation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

Resisting Category

A folio of Spanish-language fiction in translation

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Samanta Schweblin,
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