This week, we recommend stories from Sophia Panych, Brian Payton, Jeannette Cooperman, Joshua Hunt, and Sophie Elmhirst.
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A Trip to the Library and Our Weekly Top 5
“I may never have wanted to be a librarian, but I love this job. This specific job. Not because of any kind of noble commitment to knowledge or love of books. I love it because every day requires me to meet humanity face to face.” What does it mean to be a librarian today? At […]
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I Remember the Bookstore
Jason Guriel | On Browsing | November 2022 | 4,361 words (15 minutes) Let’s browse a bookstore—a Platonic one, a composite. Let’s wander an aisle, running our fingertips across a wall of spines. One spine, thick and black, juts out: the recent NYRB Classics reissue of William Gaddis’s novel The Recognitions. It’s a block of a book, […]
Posted inBooks, Business, History, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized
The Queering of the Baby Bells
Highly public pressure campaigns against telephone companies were the crux of early LGBTQ activism.
Posted inBooks, Culture, Story
Lindy West is Preaching to the Choir
Sara Fredman talks to author Lindy West on women and likability, the evolution of pop culture, and navigating conversations in a complex, messy world.Â
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Apology Tour
Writer Jonny Auping tracks down people he’s wronged in the past to say he’s sorry.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Apology Tour
Writer Jonny Auping tracks down people he’s wronged in the past to say he’s sorry.
Posted inNonfiction
You’ve Reached the Winter of Our Discontent
A half-assed elegy for the Cool-Loser Dream Boy of Gen-X cinema.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Why Are Humans So Curious?
Mario Livio on his new book about human curiosity, his work as an astrophysicist, and why we shouldn’t fear our expanding universe.
