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The writer Mary Karr has a fetish for high-heeled shoes. She just can’t wear them anymore.

Carolyn Gillette, a hymn writer and Presbyterian minister, crafts lyrics that reflect our contemporary struggles.

 What would a Supreme Court with judges appointed by Hillary Clinton mean for America?     

 Was the Web doomed to be a “giant manipulation service,” or did we do something wrong?    

Hours before Lena Dunham’s thirtieth-birthday party, she joined David Remnick to drink champagne and discuss the end of her twenties, the end of "Girls," and why she's a Hillary diehard.

The author and former “Daily Show” executive says we can’t expect comedy to cure the ills of the nation.

The West Point English professor Elizabeth Samet teaches future officers leadership, and her playbook includes Virginia Woolf.

Welcome to the thoughtsphere. What’s a thoughtsphere?

Two mothers meet on the playground, and things get weird.

Robert Glasper, a Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist, says the genre's become a museum of itself, obsessed with the great players of the mid-twentieth century at the cost of new talent.

Harriet Krzykowski worked at a Florida prison where mentally ill inmates were tortured and, on at least one occasion, killed.

A woman with multiple sclerosis and her home health aide form an unlikely bond.

The Queen of Soul grew up with music all around her.

Roz Chast is visited by a fan, her fellow-cartoonist Liana Finck.

After moving out of his mom’s house, the twenty-two-year-old has released a solo album.

Kelefa Sanneh recommends three E.D.M. tracks.

At the age of seventy-six, a defining figure in gay fiction talks about the changes in gay life he’s witnessed in the course of his lifetime.

Limor Fried, the founder of Adafruit, talks about the importance of D.I.Y. electronics.

Jeffrey Toobin talks to Cuba Gooding, Jr., who plays O. J. in the TV series based on Toobin’s best-selling book about the case.

The New Yorker cartoonists Matt Diffee and Jack Ziegler race against the clock to come up with a batch of ideas.