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Anne Applebaum went searching for the city the novelist Henry James got to know.
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Reconsidering the plot-versus-not debate
Oleh Slobodeniuk / Getty The Thrill of a Great Sports Book
Reading about athletic feats can make watching them even better.
Bettmann / Getty A Rupture in One’s Sense of Self
In Patricia Lockwood’s new novel, the main character gets so ill that she wonders whether she’s become a different person.
Eylul Aslan Why Miriam Toews Writes
The Canadian novelist’s new memoir reckons with the deaths of her father and sister—and examines the forces that made her an author.
Andrew Francis Wallace / Toronto Star / Getty Turning a Hobby Into a Habit
A casual pastime, when practiced consistently, can change a life.
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic A Philosophy That Sees ‘Women as Doers’
What if function, not form, dictated what was in fashion?
Millennium Images / Gallery Stock The Benefits of Refusing
Melissa Febos’s The Dry Season made me wonder what narrow portals I’m looking through in my life, and what I might see if I turn away from them.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. What It Costs to Get the Life You Want
The kind of freedom that Mavis Gallant’s characters seek can still be out of reach.
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