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ARTICLES
The End of the Black American Narrative
A new century calls for new stories grounded in the present, leaving behind the painful history of slavery and its consequences
By Charles Johnson
Intimacy
Revisiting the gritty Roman neighborhood of his youth, a writer discovers a world of his own invention
By André Aciman
Her Own Society
When Emily Dickinson and her radical friend Thomas Wentworth Higginson met for the first time
By Brenda Wineapple
The Bout
When George Plimpton, the boyish editor of The Paris Review, went three rounds with the light-heavyweight champion of the world
By Blair Fuller
The End of the Black American Narrative
A new century calls for new stories grounded in the present, leaving behind the painful history of slavery and its consequences
By Charles Johnson
Intimacy
Revisiting the gritty Roman neighborhood of his youth, a writer discovers a world of his own invention
By André Aciman
Her Own Society
When Emily Dickinson and her radical friend Thomas Wentworth Higginson met for the first time
By Brenda Wineapple
The Bout
When George Plimpton, the boyish editor of The Paris Review, went three rounds with the light-heavyweight champion of the world
By Blair Fuller
DEPARTMENTS
editor's note
tuning up
A Most Interesting Young Man
Was that Bob Dylan my sister met on a weir above Woodstock?
By Brian Doyle
poetry
Confluences of Sound and Sense
Kay Ryan’s idiosyncratic approach to the commonplace
By Langdon Hammer
anniversaries
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fiction
commonplace book
Book essay
The Grasshopper and His Space Odyssey
A scientist remembers the celebrated science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke
By Jeremy Bernstein
book reviews
Democracy in Three Dimensions?
How the nation’s capital rose from a fetid forest on the backs of slaves
By Heather Ewing
Repatriating Art
A museum director examines the controversy over whether nations own their cultural artifacts