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But he died before he could finish his book on natural history. As Emerson put it, Thoreau “depart[ed] out of Nature before… he has been really shown to his peers for what he is.”
Emily Van Duyne wonders why Sylvia Plath’s accounts of Ted Hughes’s violence toward her have been so frequently dismissed or minimized.
Look to Texas for the future of electoral politics, writes Lawrence Wright. Unfortunately, the future is already here.
Gabriele Grunewald’s rare cancer has returned, but the athlete keeps fighting.
RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Sasha Velour responds to a divisive political climate by celebrating beauty, brains, and belonging.
A close reading of this whole Don Jr.-Russia situation.
The author talks with The Paris Review about writing, crime fiction, and his depiction of Black American life.
In Harper’s, Solnit considers who has access to what spaces, and with what limitations?
Jessica Berger Gross on what it means to sever ties with your family.
An excerpt from “Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home,” by Jessica Berger Gross.