The Eroticism of an IKEA Bed
Rhyme, like love, is embarrassing. Ludicrous to think that the word you mean is one that happens to share a final sound with one...
Clare Sestanovich Reads Alice Munro
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Surveillance and the Loneliness of the Long-Distance Trucker
In 2011, Karen Levy, a doctoral candidate in Princeton’s sociology department, spent the summer as a research intern at Intel’s offices near Portland, Oregon....
A Diary’s Unwanted Insights
It all starts so simply: an unseasonably warm Sunday morning in November, errands to run, a waking family to get home to. On the...
Patricia Highsmith’s New York Years
Before she wrote nearly two dozen suspense novels about psychopaths, sad sacks, and untimely death, when she was a twentysomething party girl in Manhattan,...
What Is “Woke”?
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Fifty Years of “Learning from Las Vegas”
On the morning of January 10, 1969, thirteen graduate students gathered inside Yale’s Art and Architecture Building to give their final presentations in a...
The Best Books We Read in 2023
This much anticipated and compellingly artful autobiography depicts the Duke of Sussex’s life in a tight three-act drama, consisting of his occasionally wayward youth,...
Clare Sestanovich on Keeping a Diary
In “Different People,” your story in this week’s issue of the magazine, Gilly, who’s twelve years old, starts keeping a diary. She finds her...