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Renaissance Women
A new book celebrates—and sells short—Shakespeare’s sisters
Catherine Nicholson
The Story Wars
The conflict between Red and Blue America is a clash of national mythologies
Richard Slotkin
I’ve moved to France, I’m reading French novels in French all day, every day, and this is the thing that I’m most struck by: They go much more slowly.
Rachel Cusk Interviewed by Merve Emre
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Mylar Balloons on Horse Island
Incidental objects at the Peabody Museum’s outpost
Claire Hungerford
Film
Parents Just Don’t Understand—and That’s OK
All of Us Strangers charts a new direction for queer cinema
Lio Wong
Books
Terrance Hayes Won't Be Pinned Down
The virtuosic poet is still finding new ways to dazzle—and thwart—his readers
Stephanie Burt
Adam Shatz
The author on Frantz Fanon, revolution, violence, and the psychology of oppression
James Surowiecki
Ed Ruscha's "Every Building on the Sunset Strip"
Why the artists' book is a reminder of freedom
Jim Lewis