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Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself: A Visit to the 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival
The Aspen Ideas Festival is an annual weeklong gathering of scientists, scholars, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, writers …
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
The Dead, the Wounded, and the Lost
"The Dead Ladies Project" is Jessa Crispin's account of two years spent traveling the world and reading up on some of her favorite artists and writers.
Puzzles, Form, Compassion, and Humor
Make Us Happy: On Joseph Luzzi’s “In a Dark Wood”
Joseph Luzzi's "In a Dark Wood" explores the significance of Dante's "Divine Comedy" on his personal life.
Witches Brew (or the Perfect Coffee Shop Companion)
"Um, is Patti Smith a Crazy Cat Lady?"
Family History
"It's difficult today to think of lobotomy as surgery, and not torture."
Endless Surprises: An Interview with Kurt Caswell
John Lane interviews Kurt Caswell.
Living Space: Socialist Blocks as Homes
Socialist blocks as they stand today are not dead and decaying. They are regularly remolded by the changing communities that inhabit them.
Locked Up in America: The Essay in the Age of Mass Incarceration
"Fourth City" intervenes in an ongoing public debate about prisons by providing space for prisoners themselves to enter the discussion.
The Evolution of a Writer
Lynne Sharon Schwartz discusses Joyce Carol Oates's "The Lost Landscape."
The Aphasia Book Club
The Echo Park Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library is home to the only aphasia book club in North America — and maybe the world.
Finding Order in Chaos
Barry Yourgrau is forced to confront his forever-mushrooming mess and, by extension, himself, in "Mess."
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