How the scruffy kids of the ’60s youth movement turned cooking from a shameful job into a lauded profession.
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‘I Thought, Well, We’ll See What Happens!’: Iconic Editor Nan Talese on Her Marriage and Career
“Her infidelity was taking other authors’ books into bed with her,” says Nan and Gay Talese’s daughter, Pamela.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story
When Sartre and Beauvoir Started a Magazine
In 1945, Les Temps modernes shocked the world with its pessimism and grim determination, and catapulted its founders into intellectual superstardom.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy
Melissa Chadburn goes undercover as a temp worker.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy
Melissa Chadburn goes undercover as a temp worker.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
Living Differently: How the Feminist Utopia Is Something You Have to Be Doing Now
Lynne Segal points out that if the dystopia is already here, then the utopia must be here too.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Dance Me to the End of Love
Abigail Rasminsky dreamed of becoming a professional dancer. Then she got hurt.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Dance Me to the End of Love
Abigail Rasminsky dreamed of becoming a professional dancer. Then she got hurt.
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Ferrante in Fragments of Her Choosing
At The New Republic, novelist Alexander Chee has an essay/review of Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey, Ferrante’s new book of selected letters and interviews spanning nearly two-and-a-half decades.
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The Duality of ‘Home,’ or, a Life Both Lived and On Display
In The New York Times Magazine, Rachel Cusk meditates on the ways our homes are simultaneously the places we live, and set pieces that we art-direct.
