Essays

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The Unfolding of Time in Paint

My encounters with Joan Mitchell's panels
Rachel Cohen
Sepia toned photograph showing painter Joan Mitchell behind a canvas in her studio
Memoir

The Talented Ms. Highsmith

I worked for the novelist in her final months. I thought she wanted to kill me.
Elena Gosalvez Blanco
A Closer Read

Taking Offense

Reading through bad feeling
Garth Greenwell
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How Mrs. Dalloway Began

Slipping into Virginia Woolf’s sentences
Edmund de Waal
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When Does a Divorce Begin?

Most people think of it as failure. For me it was an achievement.
Anahid Nersessian
Dan Fox as a child with his nain, or grandmother, in the chicken-filled yard of Siambr Wen, near Llanrwst, North Wales, UK
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What Happened When I Began to Speak Welsh

By learning my family's language, I hoped to join their conversation.
Dan Fox

Browse

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Close-up of a dahlia
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Esmeralda

A poem and a flower
Melissa Hunter Gurney
December 24, 2018
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The Old Place

Place and technology
Anna Lewis
December 17, 2018
An old advertisement for Lucky Strike in which a blonde woman lights a cigarette.
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Computational Propaganda

Public relations in a high-tech age
Renée DiResta
October 1, 2018
Picture of angel figure over the plains
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Getting It Twisted

Jabari Asim
October 1, 2018
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Incarcerated Language

Reginald Dwayne Betts
October 1, 2018
A photograph of Leni Riefenstahl during filming, 1936.
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Leni Riefenstahl

On a Nazi female filmmaker
Francine Prose
October 1, 2018
A poster with figures whose bodies include the letters C and P. El Lissitzky, Basic Calculus, 1928.
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Of Martyrs and Robots

Propaganda and group identity
Megan Hyska
October 1, 2018
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The Misinformation Age

Weaponizing Reputation
Cailin O’Connor
and
James Owen Weatherall
October 1, 2018
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Walk Past the Vines, Past the Orchards

When friends talk about art
Meltem Gürle
September 24, 2018
A photo of the author and her brother, with other children
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The Good Brother

On siblings
Mary Barnett
September 12, 2018