Lauren Wilkinson Wants to Buy Happiness
Lauren Wilkinson reflects on living in tenuous financial balance in her twenties, and feeling, ten years and a lot of MFA-based debt later, that no amount of money will ever be "enough."
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The Millions Top 10
Mama Was a Number Runner: On The World According to Fannie Davis
A female entrepreneur from the Jim Crow South arrives in the 1950s industrial cauldron of Detroit, determined to figure out “how to make a way out of no way.”
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The Queens of Repulsive Realism
A new wave of "Repulsive Realism" features characters who manufacture and revel in their own mire and rebel against packaged femininity.
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The Choir of Man: Max Porter’s ‘Lanny’ Wants You to Listen
Porter's second book is an attempt to capture a village, entirely, in language, and it does so by trying to represent the village’s breadth of narrative voices.
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‘Sing to It’: Featured Fiction from Amy Hempel
If she was home at night in her husband’s bed, did he care what she did with her days?
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W.S. Merwin, Surrounded by Green
A. Hope Jahren remembers W.S. Merwin with an evocative description of visiting the Merwin Conservancy, an island filled with trees Merwin planted himself.
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Ferlinghetti at 100: An Appreciation
He’s our longest-living ambassador of the written word, a relic from a time when a certain type of person treated books as sacred objects rather than as products that could be sold at a profit.
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The Unimaginable Became Reality: The Millions Interviews Shashi Tharoor
When you break the barriers of civility that help hold certain standards of conduct in a society together, and therefore keep us all together, you make anything possible.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom Is a Public Intellectual
For Guernica, Roxane Gay interviews Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom about her new essay collection, Thick.
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