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Editing Without Ego: How Katharine S. White Quietly Shaped <em>The New Yorker</em>’s Writers

Editing Without Ego: How Katharine S. White Quietly Shaped The New Yorker’s Writers

Amy Reading on Artistic Collaboration, Egotistical Male Editors, and the Idea of the Genius Editor

By Amy Reading | September 3, 2024

What the Deliberate Targeting of Libraries Reveals About the Nature of War

What the Deliberate Targeting of Libraries Reveals About the Nature of War

Priscilla Morris on the Burning Books and Besieged City That Inspired Her Novel

By Priscilla Morris | August 20, 2024

What the Rise of Techno-Humanitarianism Means For Crisis-Hit Communities Across the Globe

What the Rise of Techno-Humanitarianism Means For Crisis-Hit Communities Across the Globe

Jean-Martin Bauer on the Use of Technology to Resolve Global Hunger and Food Insecurity

By Jean-Martin Bauer | June 26, 2024

The Worst Dads in All of Literature: An Incomplete List

The Worst Dads in All of Literature: An Incomplete List

Garth Risk Hallberg on the Dysfunctional Fathers of the Western Canon

By Garth Risk Hallberg | June 13, 2024

Lost and Found: KB Brookins on Masculinity, Gender and Trauma

Lost and Found: KB Brookins on Masculinity, Gender and Trauma

"I was a girl in the imagination of others and nowhere else."

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When Judith Jones Brought Sylvia Plath and Julia Child to American Bookshelves

When Judith Jones Brought Sylvia Plath and Julia Child to American Bookshelves

Sara B. Franklin on the Legendary Editor’s Mentorship of Two Iconic Authors

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What Virginia Woolf Got Wrong About Lady Anne Clifford

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Literature’s Lonely Hunter: On the “Sad, Happy Life” of Carson McCullers

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The Show Must Go On: On Billie Holiday’s Last Live Performance

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Paul Alexander Chronicles the Final Months of America’s Queen of Jazz

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