Letter From Minnesota: “I Have My Passport With Me.”

Letter From Minnesota: “I Have My Passport With Me.”

Michael Torres on Life in the Lens of Authoritarianism

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An Archive of Associations: When My Father Bought Foucault’s Old Car

An Archive of Associations: When My Father Bought Foucault’s Old Car

Anna Nygren on Writing Between Intertextuality, Obsession and Categorization

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Letter From Minnesota: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Frontier, From an Immigrant in Minneapolis

Letter From Minnesota: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Frontier, From an Immigrant in Minneapolis

Sun Yung Shin on the Ever-Shifting Meanings of US Citizenship

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What Playing With Sun Ra in College Taught Me About Myself

What Playing With Sun Ra in College Taught Me About Myself

Michael Lowenthal on Jazz, Musicianship, and Discovering the Limits of Improvisation

By Michael Lowenthal | February 13, 2026

Have You Ever Tried Going on a Blind Date With a Book?

Have You Ever Tried Going on a Blind Date With a Book?

Jess deCourcy Hinds Offers 13 Ways of Looking at the Book World’s Latest Phenomenon

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | February 13, 2026

What Science Reveals About the Many Facets of Desire

What Science Reveals About the Many Facets of Desire

Tom Bellamy on the Neurochemical Reactions That Drive Love, Obsession and Longing

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Letter From Minnesota: Count Them Among the Loved 

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Jennifer Bowen on the Distortions of Time Under an Occupation

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Letter From Minnesota: SOS From an Occupied City

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Angela Ajayi on the Feeling of Authoritarian Creep

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Some Perfect Exact Words: On the Real Legacy of Elizabeth Wurtzel

Some Perfect Exact Words: On the Real Legacy of Elizabeth Wurtzel

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