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It’s fair to say James Baldwin wasn’t a fan of The Exorcist. “It has absolutely nothing going for it,” he wrote in his 1976 memoir-meets-criticism collection The Devil Finds...
This conversation is a little different. We wanted to take a break from the election-year political jousting to talk to the poet Christian Wiman about Zero at the Bone: Fifty...
“Why remember?” Danielle Chapman asks in her memoir Holler: A Poet Among Patriots. “Why dredge things up? Why go into all of that again?” She notes that sometimes our...
Susan Dominus Wins the National Magazine Award for Service Journalism for her article “A Vicious Cycle” in the New York Times Magazine. See the full list of winners here.