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The Path to Freedom

by Édouard Louis,Translated by Tash Aw,

From the introduction to A Woman’s Battles and Transformations, a book about the author’s mother, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Translated from the French.…

Work-Life Balance

by Celia Paul,

From Letters to Gwen John, which will be published next month by New York Review Books. The letter is dated June 16, 2019, eighty years after John, a Welsh painter,…

The Silent Type

by Sam Sussman,

On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s son

The Grand Shattering

by Sarah Manguso,

I never wanted to be a mother. I wanted to be a person. My identity crisis began at age three, when I wanted to be Popeye but realized that I…

Part Neither, Part Both

by Michelle Tea,

The hospital room in which I recovered from my caesarean section was as cold and ugly as any hospital room anywhere, but because it was high on a hill in…

The Donor

by Emma Donoghue,

He’s been a central character in the story for as long as Chris and I have been telling it to the kids. “We had Emma’s egg but we didn’t have…

Other Types of Poison

by Rebecca Makkai,

Three legends

Mommies, you bastards

by Harper’s Staff,

The American Void

by Simon Critchley,

From remarks delivered at the American Political Science Association in Boston on August 30 and at the New School in New York City on September 18. Critchley is the chair…

Falling

by Donovan Hohn,

Confessions of a lapsed forest Christian

Untitled

by Peter Turnley,