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  1. science of us
    I Can’t Stop Thinking About This 1991 Book About PainIt’s about healing the body with the mind.
  2. books
    Elin Hilderbrand Doesn’t Mind That You Call Her Books ‘Beach Reads’“I was not the most talented person at Iowa, not by a long shot. But I could get shit done.”
  3. culture
    Nicholas Sparks Says He’s Sorry for Those Anti-LGBTQ EmailsHe says the emails in which he attempted to bar an LGBTQ club at his private school were written “in haste.”
  4. cringe
    Naomi Wolf’s Nightmare Continues ApaceHer publisher pushed back the release date after “new questions” arose about the contentious book.
  5. lawsuits
    The Story of the Woman Who Shamed the Transit Worker Is Getting MessierNatasha Tynes is suing Rare Bird Books for $13.4 million for “extreme emotional distress.”
  6. crime
    Emily Doe, the Woman Brock Turner Assaulted, Is Writing a MemoirThe Stanford rape survivor will “share her experience in emotional, honest and eloquent detail.”
  7. profiles
    Whose Story Will Sandi Tan Tell Next?The Idiot seemed like an “unadaptable” book. But after Shirkers, is there anything the director can’t do?
  8. culture
    I Can’t Stop Thinking About Donna Tartt’s Dorm-Room Martini Hours“She was wearing a black brocade skirt-suit and high heels and smoking from a long, slender cigarette holder.”
  9. cancellations
    Moby Reads the Room and Cancels His Book Tour“I’m going to go away for awhile.”
  10. kids
    Does This Children’s Book Spark Joy?Marie Kondo’s new book will teach kids how to “tidy” and “embrace joy.”
  13. whoops
    Here’s an Actual Nightmare: Naomi Wolf Learning On-Air That Her Book Is WrongSomewhere in the pantheon of anxiety dreams near “showing up to work naked” is “learning on-air that your book is totally wrong.”
  14. books
    Grace Coddington Illustrates the Life of Marc JacobsFor a whimsical new book.
  15. parties!
    A Surprise Book Party on the G TrainHosted by the woman behind Subway Book Review, an Instagram account for booklovers.
  16. books
    How to Do SomethingJenny Odell’s book changed me, for real. Or for at least a little while.
  17. books
    Susan Sontag Might’ve Written Her Ex-Husband’s Seminal BookA new biography contains compelling evidence that Sontag wrote Freud: The Mind of the Moralist.
  18. book excerpt
    The Same Story About My MomI am good at stories. I’m also good at indignation.
  19. q&a
    What It’s Like to Be at the Center of a Famous Literary HoaxA conversation with the person who embodied JT Leroy.
  20. sexual abuse
    Old Creep Struggles to Sell MemoirPresumably, Woody Allen’s memoir is “his side of things.”
  21. dads
    Are People Buying the Mueller Report for Their Dads or What?The Mueller Report is officially a best seller, perhaps in preparation for Father’s Day.
  22. books
    Is This the Millennial Parent Book?The Cut talks to Expecting Better author Emily Oster about her new parenthood book, Cribsheet.
  25. science of us
    The Book Newly Sober People Love to Give to Each OtherTalking with Annie Grace, author of This Naked Mind.
  26. q&a
    What Drives Someone to Become a Conspiracy Theorist?The Cut spoke to Anna Merlan about Pizzagate, paranoia peddlers, and her debut book Republic of Lies.
  27. books
    Bret Easton Ellis Thinks He Was ‘Punked’ by The New Yorker“I got punked, I have to admit it.”
  28. i think about this a lot
    I Think About This a Lot: Game of Thrones EditionHow is Jon Snow so good at oral sex? Who babysits the White Walker kids? And other pressing GoT thoughts.
  29. books
    Sally Rooney Strips the Novel for PartsWhy can’t all books be like this?
  30. culture
    Emily Ratajkowski Has Discovered Sally RooneyHer Instagram story and Twitter presence currently revolve around her love of Conversations With Friends.
  31. books
    Will This Book Get Me Laid?I wanted to loan him a book about his favorite band, but first I had to buy it.
  32. books
    How to Write About Impossible Female PainOn Miriam Toews’s latest novel, Women Talking.
  33. book excerpt
    Watching the Internet React to the Worst Night of My LifeErin Lee Carr on her father’s death.
  34. q&a
    She Joked About Writing the Great Zambian Novel. Then She Did It.Namwali Serpell and I spoke about day jobs, novel-writing, mortality, and grief.
  37. the cut on tuesdays
    Sally Rooney Tells Us About the Books That Shaped HerThe Irish author of Conversations With Friends talks Henry James, J.D. Salinger, and Marxist theory on the Cut’s podcast.
  38. money
    How to Be a Writer and Still Get Really, Really RichJessica Knoll can afford a Porsche, a house, and expensive therapy.
  39. winner's circle
    Meet 10 Emerging Writers Who Just Won the Whiting AwardThe prestigious literary prize predicts future fame and success.
  40. culture
    When Will J.K. Rowling Confirm the Rest of Our Wizard Sex Theories?Does the Knight Bus host a sex party called Knight of Play, yes or no?
  41. books
    Sex, Lies, and Andrea DworkinReconsidering unflinchingly angry feminist writing.
  42. books
    Halle Butler Writes About Women Who’ve Soured on AmbitionThe novelist’s characters are wondering why the future they were promised never arrived.
  43. book excerpt
    Jennifer Aniston Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About Break-upsIf Jen could be okay breaking it off with Brad Pitt and staying friends (allegedly), then I could be okay.
  44. breakups
    6 Books to Read After a BreakupOne of these will definitely meet your post-breakup needs.
  45. fixations
    I Think About This a Lot: A Sumerian Goddess’s Romantic DemandIt’s a useful thing to wonder in general as you enter a bar or swipe through dating apps.
  46. books
    The Best Character in the Wild Literary Scammer StoryNo, not the cups of urine.
  49. book excerpt
    Why Perfection Doesn’t Equal HappinessReshma Saujani’s Brave, Not Perfect explores the confusing, inconsistent, and impossible standards women set for themselves.
  50. q&a
    The Author of The Collected Schizophrenias Has More QuestionsThe Cut spoke to Esmé Weijun Wang about the process of writing her newest book.
  51. cooking
    Your Mom’s Favorite Cookbook Is Now GothA $156 Joy of Cooking won’t make me a better cook, but I want it anyway.
  52. q&a
    The Author of Maid Doesn’t Want to Be Called a Success StoryThe Cut spoke to Stephanie Land, whose debut memoir describes the years she spent cleaning houses to support her young daughter.
  53. hot
    Can You Tell Which of These Is the Real Synopsis of E.L. James’s New Book?The 50 Shades of Grey author just announced her new book, The Mister.
  54. culture
    Mary Oliver’s Poetry Found a Second Life As a MemeAre you really going to spend your one wild and precious life on Twitter?
  55. review
    Did Hype Kill the ‘Cat Person’ Book?Maybe it never had a chance.
  56. culture
    The Marie Kondo Book Drama Does Not Spark JoyLetting go of this discourse.
  57. interviews
    What If Your Entire Relationship Was a Lie?Talking to Abby Ellin, the author of Duped.
  58. q&a
    The Author of ‘Cat Person’ Wants Her New Book to Make You UncomfortableKristen Roupenian’s new short-story collection, You Know You Want This, builds on the themes of sex and power that made “Cat Person” a phenomenon.
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