From the Archive
Redux: In Memoriam, Susannah Hunnewell
By The Paris Review
What It Is to Wake Up
By Carmen Maria MachadoIt was hard to fully appreciate The Awakening when I first read it, given to me by my sophomore-year English teacher to appease my rage against all the Hemingway we were assigned.
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Poetry Rx
By Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire SchwartzIn our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Kaveh Akbar is on the line.
Poetry Rx
Farewell Generous, Salty Susannah
By The Paris ReviewShe danced with abandon, and her conversation was peppered with salty language and a lot of table thumping.
The Daily
In Memoriam
Feminize Your Canon
By Emma GarmanOur monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
Feminize Your Canon
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The Postmenopausal Novel
By Darcey SteinkeThere are few books for those of us on the other side of fertility. I could not find a single story that did not equate menopause with disease and death.
The Daily
Arts & Culture
Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
Eat Your Words
Keep It Bible
By Ryan McIlvainIn Brazil we knocked the doors of poor people. They answered in threadbare football jerseys, in stained mesh shorts, in Havaianas thin as reeds. We called them humble. We called them receptive. We were Mormon missionaries. We were chest-deep in optimism.
From the Archive, Issue 184
Fiction
Another Sad, Bizarre Chapter in Human History
By Benjamin MarkovitsI used to be friendly with a kid called Sam Bamburger, whose mother was the first woman I ever heard of to get divorced. Sam was about nine at the time and up to that point something of an all-American kid, except maybe shorter and paler.
