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Miranda July

The novelist on the difference between emotional honesty and autobiography
Meghan O’Rourke
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The Polycrisis

Why can’t we stop talking about nonmonogamy?
Brandy Jensen


This Part of Our Lives Is Over

Sending my daughter to Japan
Emily Bernard
Leaves on a geometric pattern

Amy Herzog and Brenda Shaughnessy

Two writers on art and motherhood
Meghan O’Rourke

Yellow Band

A diagnosis alters a writer's relationship to his work
Steve Edwards

Auster found in the problem of language’s ambiguity a means to push the bounds of the detective novel and, by consequence, of the novel more generally.

Ben Libman Paul Auster

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Rae Armantrout


Angel Jacks

Brian Blanchfield
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Gender Wars

Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash
Paisley Currah

Jars with Well-Fitting Lids

Seeing loss more clearly
Catherine Lacey

Heat Maps

Desire in the dark
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

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Rachel Cusk

The novelist on the “feminine non-state of non-being”
Merve Emre

In Utero and After

Catherine Barnett

Rosaura at Dawn

Daniel Saldaña París
translated by Christina MacSweeney

Catechumen

Kéchi Nne Nomu

Litany for a Prolonged Dream

Joyce Mansour
translated by C. Francis Fisher

The Search

Catherine Barnett

Candy Darling’s “Newspaper” Centerfold

Encountering the infamous collage of a downtown legend
Lucy Sante

Langston Hughes's "China"

Why the previously unpublished poem is a revelation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

Ed Ruscha's "Every Building on the Sunset Strip"

Why the artists' book is a reminder of freedom
Jim Lewis