Are We Crazy to Cross Such a Treacherous River?
My wife, Kasia, and I stood at the edge of the frozen river, contemplating our own mortality. The map had promised a...
The End of the University as We Know It
The rumors had been building for months: The Trump administration was coming for the universities. In the weeks after the president...
The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of...
“A riveting wilderness suspense novel by a novelist at the height of her powers” (Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Candy House), Heartwood takes you on a...
In the world of her grandparents in rural Nova Scotia, Elizabeth Bishop found a deep well of inspiration—and Christian beliefs she would always struggle against.
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Meghan O’Rourke is a best-selling, award-winning poet, memoirist, and critic who also happens to be my neighbor. She is the person whose door I knock on when I want to...
Michael Cunningham in the March 3, 2025 issue of The New Yorker on Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain”, originally published in October 1997.
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