Travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor recalls his most dangerous journey.
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The Politics of Poetry
The New York Times’s poetry columnist on the intersection between poetry and politics.
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The Politics of Poetry
The New York Times’s poetry columnist on the intersection between poetry and politics.
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Appropriate for a Seven-Year-Old Child
Navigating life with a transgender child.
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Appropriate for a Seven-Year-Old Child
Navigating life with a transgender child.
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My Unsentimental Education
“I wanted him to understand my life—that I’d been caught in the local pattern and found the safest way forward, but if I’d lived somewhere else I’d be someone else and still could.”
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My Unsentimental Education
“I wanted him to understand my life—that I’d been caught in the local pattern and found the safest way forward, but if I’d lived somewhere else I’d be someone else and still could.”
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‘Too Strong for That’: Margo Jefferson on Depression as Taboo in Affluent Black America
But one white female privilege had always been withheld from the girls of Negroland. Aside from the privilege of actually being white, they had been denied the privilege of freely yielding to depression, of flaunting neurosis as a mark of social and psychic complexity. A privilege that was glorified in the literature of white female […]
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The Girl Who Slept with God
An excerpt from Val Brelinski’s debut novel, about three daughters who’ve been raised by devout evangelical Christians in Idaho.
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In the Grand Scheme of Things
What one mother learned after she discovered her daughter had albinism.