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Aug 23, 2025 • 31min
The Ghost of Lady Murasaki
A thousand years ago, Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji, the world’s first novel. Who was she?
By Lauren Groff
From the October 2025 issue.
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Aug 20, 2025 • 16min
You Deserved Better
A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants
By William J. Burns
From the October 2025 issue.
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Aug 13, 2025 • 1h 4min
Canada Is Killing Itself
The country gave its citizens the right to die. Doctors are struggling to keep up with demand.
By Elaina Plott Calabro
From the September 2025 issue.
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Aug 12, 2025 • 21min
The Judgments of Muriel Spark
The novelist liked playing God—a very capricious one.
By Judith Shulevitz
From the September 2025 issue.
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Aug 12, 2025 • 14min
The Forgotten Still-Life Prodigy
The 17th-century painter Rachel Ruysch was once more famous than Vermeer.
By Zachary Fine
From the September 2025 issue.
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Aug 10, 2025 • 14min
Going Back
What home meant before, and after, Hurricane Katrina
By Clint Smith
From the September 2025 issue.
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Aug 9, 2025 • 53min
My Father’s Work
When the greatest musicians of the 1970s needed an instrument—or a friend—my dad was there.
By Nancy Walecki
From the September 2025 issue.
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Aug 8, 2025 • 13min
Captain Ron’s Guide to Fearless Flying
The pilot who calms the nerves of anxious fliers
By Elaine Godfrey
From the September 2025 issue.
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Aug 7, 2025 • 57min
This Is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks Like
Sudan’s devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.
By Anne Applebaum
From the September 2025 issue.
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Aug 6, 2025 • 12min
Mrs. Dalloway’s Midlife Crisis
Virginia Woolf’s wild run of creativity in her 40s included writing her masterpiece on the terrors and triumphs of middle age.
By Hillary Kelly
From the September 2025 issue.
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