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Team spirit was alive and well inside the Georgia World Congress Center, with volunteers putting in work on the 9/11 National Day of Service.

This week, the editors revisit writer Sarah Nicole Prickett’s “Serious Sex Battle,” published in February 2018.“A preference for death over captivity spurs radical movement,” Prickett declares in her virtuosic, gimlet-eyed essay on a woman of inordinate strength. “Serious Sex Battle” is a feminist genealogy, but it’s also a strong theory for how to outmaneuver reactionaries. Legerity is essential; so is an alert refusal of your enemy’s terms. As Prickett argues, “The heroine ...

That hot new novel can wait. It's time to indulge in an old favorite again.  Here, an essay on the pleasure, psychology, & benefits of rereading books.