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Our Fall-Winter special issue, number 232-233, centering on personal essays on film, is out now!
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An excerpt from Afterword: Nine Summers at the Bennington Writing Workshops

Annie Dillard and Ralph Ellison

Nicholas Delbanco
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Wielding the Lyric

On Now It’s Dark

Ocean Vuong
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The Home Key #24

E-Spatially: An Interview with Louis Chude-Sokei

Rick Moody
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The Home Key #23

An Interview with Brendan Canty

Rick Moody
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The Home Key #21: 2025 Music I Liked (Protest Edition!)

Rick Moody
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The Home Key #20

Defector From the Petty Wars

Rick Moody
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Celebrating David Lynch

Rick Moody
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Let Us Compare Mythologies

Barbara Purcell
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Weekday

Joyce Carol Oates
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Balanchine’s Life-Affirming Life*

Jay Rogoff
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Barr(barians) at the Gate: William Barr and Donald Trump
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“Sad Song”

Chase Twichell
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The Mess at PEN America

The defense of free expression must be viewpoint-neutral and consequence-agnostic, or it will be nothing

Nils Gilman
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The Home Key #22: Paul McCartney, the Solo Years

Rick Moody

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Marc Woodworth

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Adam Braver
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In Which I Talk Further with AI About a Theory of Mind1

Rick Moody
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The Home Key #18

The Solo Years

Rick Moody

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Marc Woodworth

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Adam Braver
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The Home Key #17

Things I Enjoyed in 2024, Band Edition

Rick Moody
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The Home Key #16

An Interview with Dean Olsher

Rick Moody
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Witness to the Open Classroom Movement

Phillip Lopate
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The Home Key #15: You’ll Never Know!—An Interview With Julian Saporiti

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Suppose then that, at some level, Trump’s deepest supporters picked up the signal that he lived and thrived for their sins and (because he was a winner) washed them clean. They would make allowances for his nastiness, explain it away, because they bonded with him as a giant of a man. He was their avenger against an unholy America that wages war on their righteousness, forcing their own racist and xenophobic impulses underground (even to the point of suppressing the knowledge that they had felt and suppressed them). In the dark imagination where their longings live, they can pass through the celestial looking glass into a purified world.
This excerpt appears in For the Love of Sin, by

Todd Gitlin

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