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The deep roots of “white trash” in America: “Not only are we not a post-racial society, we are certainly not a post-class society”

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Melissa Broder (Lord Byron)

The only addiction “that hasn’t tried to kill me”: Melissa Broder on confessional writing, anxiety, and how much honesty is too much

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Elizabeth Isadora Gold (Dana Miller)

“I’m a different animal now”: “The Mommy Group” author gets real about having kids and how America needs to change to support mothers

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“Writing about sex may have led me to writing about religion”: Tom Perrotta on theocracies, “The Leftovers” and why “The Scarlet Letter” is a coming-out story

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(Netflix)

Whiteness and “Making a Murderer”: Manitowoc, the “one-branch family tree” and the sinister race science of “degenerate whites”

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Mom, did you ever get high?

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(Heidi Jo Brady)

Gillian Flynn isn’t writing “the next ‘Gone Girl'”: “I feel like I need a break from their voices in my head”

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No, really, go the f*ck to sleep

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“We are a very misunderstood group of parents”: Home-schooling isn’t just for the Duggars anymore

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“It’s not a women’s problem, it’s a workplace problem”: Anne-Marie Slaughter on the crisis at the heart of the “having it all” problem

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The death of Franzenfreude: On the peculiar literary itch that only one of our best — and most ridiculous — authors can scratch

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Our obsession with safety is harming our kids

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Women don’t have “maiden” names: A modest proposal to retire the descriptor

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I’m raising my children atheist in the Bible Belt

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Am I raising a narcissist?

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I accidentally became a housewife

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Fewer babies dying is good, right?

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