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On Emancipation

What Hollywood has done to a much-circulated image of American slavery
Lauren Michele Jackson
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Whose Trans Realism?

Nevada and the fiction of fucking up
Kay Gabriel
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Geoff Dyer

The essayist on not having a career
James Surowiecki
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Prairie School

Janice N. Harrington
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The Path to "River See"

How improvisation and ancestry shape a playwright's work
Sharon Bridgforth
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The Rest of the Story

Remembering childhood
Carolyn Forché

If you live in a place long enough it becomes peopled with ghosts.

Ivan Vladislavić A Faceless Compass

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A critic tracks herself
Margo Jefferson
Fiction

Jana Dives

Tsitsi Dangarembga
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Threnody

Lorna Goodison
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The Flood

Cathy Park Hong
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After the Biopsy

Kwame Dawes
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Reclaiming Tituba

The real story behind Arthur Miller's character
Winsome Pinnock

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Poetry

The Flight

John Jeremiah Sullivan
Poetry

Watershed

Zaffar Kunial
Essays

Remembering Benares

The city that inspired The Romantics
Pankaj Mishra
Fiction

The Postman

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
Poetry

The Toll

John Jeremiah Sullivan
Poetry

Translation

Carolyn Forché
Essays

Bottle Torches

A fantasia on Nari Ward
Ishion Hutchinson
Poetry

O’er

Zaffar Kunial
Poetry

On Hearing News of Another Shot Black Man

Kwame Dawes
Poetry

The Lawn

Wong May
Poem of the Week

Flies

Maureen N. McLane
Poetry

Remembering the World

Wong May
Poetry

Chickens

Wong May
Poem of the Week

Sean

Leslie Sainz
Fiction

The Front House

Cord Jefferson
Essays

A Glass Essay

Reading Anne Carson post-breakup
Sarah Chihaya
Essays

For Argument's Sake

In praise of high school debate
Becca Rothfeld

From the Archives

From the Archives

How Should One Read a Book?

Read as if one were writing it
Virginia Woolf
A painting of a woman reading at a table.
Jan Brandes, Ananas, 1785. Courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amserdam.
Poetry

Sunrise

Louise Glück
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For S., at the Boat Pond

Jean Valentine