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The Absent Reader

by Eileen Myles,

From an essay that appeared in Spike Art Magazine in December. The thing I will say about being young is I hated it. I wasn’t anybody, I was broke, my…

The Case Against Children

by Elizabeth Barber,

Among the antinatalists

Gimme Welter

by Becca Rothfeld,

From All Things Are Too Small, which will be published next month by Metropolitan Books. “All things / are too small,” begins a poem believed to be written by the thirteenth-century Dutch…

Film Bête Noire

by Marguerite Duras,

From My Cinema, which was published by Another Gaze Editions in January. Translated from the French by Daniella Shreir. No longer any use in the make-believe of socialist hope. In…

Discussing On Immunity: An Inoculation with Eula Biss

by Jeffery Gleaves,

Eula Biss discusses vaccinations, motherhood, and metaphors

Jeff Sharlet on Radiant Truths

by Sam Kestenbaum,

Jeff Sharlet on his collection of essential dispatches, reports, confessions, and other essays on American belief

The Empathy Exams: Essays

by Jeffery Gleaves,

Leslie Jamison on empathy in craft and in life

American Scolder

by John Stuart Mill,

From annotations written by John Stuart Mill on his personal copies of the first editions of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essays, which were published in two volumes, in 1841 and 1844.…

Darling: A Conversation with Richard Rodriguez

by Emily Stokes,

Richard Rodriguez on the essay as biography of an idea, the relationship between gay men’s liberation and women’s liberation, and the writerly impulse to give away secrets

Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere

by Jeffery Gleaves,

Lucas Mann on hope and change in a minor-league-baseball city

Portrait Inside My Head and To Show and To Tell

by Jeffery Gleaves,

Phillip Lopate on eclectic curiosities and the old-school essayists

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The Absent Reader

The Case Against Children

Gimme Welter

Film Bête Noire

Discussing On Immunity: An Inoculation with Eula Biss

Jeff Sharlet on Radiant Truths

The Empathy Exams: Essays

American Scolder

Darling: A Conversation with Richard Rodriguez

Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere

Portrait Inside My Head and To Show and To Tell

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