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Read an excerpt from Keramet Reiter’s new book about the rise of solitary confinement

Seat Backs and Tray Tables

Leaves of Presence

It’s Okay Not To Know

The Roads Not Taken

I coulda been a contender—as a cantor

Sex, Lies, and Literature

Learning from Mr. Hyde

Looking Ahead

And saying goodbye

They Reminisce Over You

Garden State Sorcerer

In his new memoir, Springsteen reveals his inner life but is strangely silent on his music

Under the Dark Marquee

The Root Cause

Padraic X. Scanlan tells the real history of the Irish Potato Famine

Consolidated Ruin

“After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes” by Emily Dickinson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño

Ancestral healing

Brown Wasps

“Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

A Midsummer Night’s Stream
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A Midsummer Night’s Stream

Learning to Be Social
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What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?

The Murderer as Everyman
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Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall

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