A conversation with Lavinia Spalding, editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, and our recent picks.
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Pork, Love, and Money: Life According to La Piraña Lechonera
“For 23 years, chef Angel Jimenez has drawn barbecue pork devotees to the South Bronx. This summer, the party is heating up again.”
Bright, Built World
“A reflection on how the poets Richard Siken and Anne Carson responded to losing their language.”
The Great Debate: Recorders vs. Notebooks
Brendan O’Meara talks to journalist Darcy Frey about why he chooses his notebook over a recorder.
“A Thousand Eulogies Are Exported to the Comma.” Of Syntax and Genocide
Nicki Kattoura on the impossibility of writing about the destruction of Gaza.
The Cat Who Woke Me Up
“Even though my brain is confused and I’m struggling, always struggling, to see if my writing is good, I still want to write. And the writing that matters the most to me isn’t about Alzheimer’s. It’s about a cat.”
The True Power of ‘Succession’ Comes From Writing Inside the Box
“The HBO show was known for witty jabs and f-word-laden insults. But perhaps its biggest achievement was ending on its own terms—and its writing through lines along the way.”
One Step Removed from Ash
“I am still afraid of forgetting. There is much I have already forgotten.”
A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending
“Glenn Horowitz built a fortune selling the archives of writers such as Vladimir Nabokov and Alice Walker. Then a rock star pressed charges.”

