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The Latest Joan Didion Book — What to Respect and What to Question
When is an exploration of the personal exploitative? When is it clear? Joan Didion wields outsized influence even now, several years after her death. Her most recent book, Notes to John, her husband, was... Read More
Happiness Requires Character
Maybe you won’t know your happiness until old age Ocean Vuong’s interview was searing. His words were skinless. His answers to the interviewer’s questions were as if he had wrestled an angel or... Read More