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Critic Megan O’Grady On Art and Feeling Alive

After making space for herself in art, O'Grady wants to make space for the rest of us.
By Noah Berlatsky

Joan Didion, One of the Greatest American Writers of All Time, Has Passed Away

Didion's journalism, essays, novels and cultural criticism are peerless in their chilly disassembling of all mistruths.
By Helen Holmes

Books for Those Grieving and Processing Mortality in 2021

Now that we’re here, what do we do? Grief demands observation. It’s not easy.
By Lauren LeBlanc

Utopian Heartbreak: Amia Srinivasan’s ‘The Right to Sex’

By Grace Byron
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The Moral Bonds Between ‘Steven Universe’ and ‘BoJack Horseman’

By Ayoola Solarin

The ‘Perfect Mom’ Myth Gets a Reality Check in ‘What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About’

By Veronica Suchodolski

This Bracing, Necessary Book About the Value of Love Without Romance Is Perfectly Timed

By Lauren LeBlanc

10 of Roger Ebert’s Best Pieces of Writing on Movies and ‘Life Itself’

By John Bonazzo
Montaigne: his free-ranging essays were almost scandalous in their day.

Guide to the Classics: Michel de Montaigne’s Essay

By Matthew Sharpe
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Why New York City Now Feels Like a Lazy Tourist Town

By Alec Appelbaum
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So This Is New York

By Evan James

Thought Catalog Writer Pens Brilliant History of Williamsburg a la Candide

By Foster Kamer

Scandinavian Writers React to Attacks in Norway

By Emily Witt

When Fury Becomes the Essay: 'Otherwise Known as the Human Condition' by Geoff Dyer

By Adam Wilson

Paterson Criticizes Paladino, On Policy

By Reid Pillifant
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