In the ancient hot mess known as Judea, a young queen had to navigate a self-destructive royal dynasty and one of history’s worst husbands.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
Protecting Your Writing Time In This Weird Time of Ours
Poet Patricia Lockwood offers ideas on how to keep writing in the unstable, toxic, distracting times we live in.
Posted inReading List, Writing
On Keeping a Notebook: A Reading List
In this reading list, Jeanne Bonner ruminates on the joys of writing by hand and keeping a notebook.
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Quotes
After the US Open, a History of Racial Caricature
In the wake of an Australian cartoon about the U.S. Open historian Brooke Newman traces a history of racial caricature.
Posted inNonfiction
United States of Conspiracy: An Interview with Anna Merlan
“Most people in America believe in one conspiracy to some extent, but the far end of the pool … is this desire to show that you really do reject all knowable authority.”
Posted inNonfiction
When Lips Speak for Themselves: A Reading List on Red Lipstick
Red lipstick is more than a cosmetic. In this reading list, Alison Fishburn explores its power.
Posted inBlog Post, Commentary, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction
Help Us Fund More Original Essays (and Great Art to Go with Them)
Member contributions help us to amplify diverse voices and give chances to new writers.
Posted inArts & Culture, Story
On Flooding: Drowning the Culture in Sameness
Flooding (v.): Unleashing a mass torrent of the same stories by the same storytellers at the same time, making it almost impossible for anyone but the same select few to rise to the surface.
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‘I’m Incredulous That People Do This Repeatedly. The Second Book Thing Is So Real.’
Mary H.K. Choi discusses her latest novel, which examines how “holograms and digital envoys” represent us online, and why it feels like her “second book signals the death of my first.”
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Women and Pain: A Reading List
“…how do we begin to change the narrative of how women’s pain is perceived, understood, and treated?”
