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Is Heathcliff Black?

A debate that can’t be won. For Slate

Rebecca Onion 11/21/25 Rebecca Onion 11/21/25

Netflix’s Train Dreams Is Beautiful, Moving, and Missing Something

A soft movie; a hard novella. For Slate

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Why Romance Readers Can’t Quit Dramione

Some of the year’s hottest books started as Harry Potter fanfic. For Slate

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The 25 Best Picture Books of the Last 25 Years

A package, with Dan Kois. For Slate

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Against The Women

People love Kristin Hannah’s Vietnam book. Why? For Slate

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Super-Motherhood

The women who have five or more kids think they know something you don’t. For Slate

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Buckminster Fuller’s Greatest Invention

Review of Alec Nevala-Lee’s Fuller biography. For the New Republic

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The Ends of Men

Does the “imagine all the men disappeared” plot still have legs? For Slate

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A Modern Feminist Classic Changed My Life. Was It Actually Garbage?

I loved The Beauty Myth. Then 2020 happened. For Slate

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Who Are Feminist Baby Books For?

Their hearts are in the right place. But can a baby understand intersectionality? For Slate

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My Mom, Mary Oliver, Fancy Smart People, and Me

A remembrance. For Slate

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Ready for the End

On prepper fiction. For Slate

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Where Is the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of Gun Control?

What would that even look like? For Slate

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America’s Other Original Sin

Essay on new histories of Native American slavery. For Slate

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Is History Written About Men, by Men?

Analysis of authorship of recently published popular history, with Andrew Kahn. For Slate

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Who Was Hugh Glass?

Essay on the tellings and retellings of Glass’ biography. For Slate

Rebecca Onion 10/6/14 Rebecca Onion 10/6/14

On Letters of Note

Essay on the Letters of Note project and the Internet’s idea of history. For the Virginia Quarterly Review

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The Awful Emptiness of “Relatable”

Against “relatable.” For Slate

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The Fantastical Allure of the Space Whale

Essay on space whales and seventies culture. For Lapham’s Quarterly

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