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For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths—and revealed the limits of limitless disclosure.
The author of Dayspring discusses queerness, Christianity, and the anxious sense that history is over.
From spartan cream to splashy blobs, Canada's French and English literary cultures have their own separate visual languages.
The author of Wild Houses on peripheral main characters, small town lore, and growing up around people of “miscellaneous occupation.”
The genocidal mind is not the preserve of cartoon monsters in history books. It is a collusion of psychological habits groomed and grown in people like us when we fixate on our private gardens.
The author of The Extinction of Irina Rey on writing a literary sitcom about life, death and climate change.
Back in high school a friend had called me Matt Damon in the drawl of Team America, but the connection to Tom Ripley felt more psychic, fundamental.
I learned to ignore the doubt that lapped at my ankles, a wave that rose every time I kissed him goodbye, left town for work or travel, and remembered, with a shock, how happily whole I felt alone.
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