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Bijan Stephen

  • Writer, Compulsion Games
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Ever New | Bijan Stephen

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By Bijan Stephen
| Soundings from The New York Review
As a child, when I learned about capital-H History, I pictured it as a kind of basalt cliff: unmovable, unshakeable, a monument I could look up at and wonder how it formed. (I had been reading too many fantasy novels at the time.) But as I grew older I learned more and more about what hadn’t been taught, and then more and more about what had only recently been discovered, or, more fascinating still, rediscovered.
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An Internet of Checkpoints

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By Bijan Stephen
| Longreads Verified
Longreads has published hundreds of original stories—personal essays, reported features, reading lists, and more—and more than 14,000 editor’s picks. And they’re all funded by readers like you. Become a member today. Bijan Stephen | Longreads | February 26, 2026 | 1,573 words (7 minutes) I stumbled across the videos the same way many other people did: in search of something else, something I can’t remember now, years later.
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Blood Orange’s Sonic Experiments

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By Bijan Stephen
| The Nation Verified
Books & the Arts / December 23, 2025 Sonic Change Blood Orange’s many moods Blood Orange’s Sonic Experiments Dev Hynes moves between grief and joy in Essex Honey, his most personal album yet. Ad Policy Dev Hynes performing as Blood Orange.(Ilya S. Savenok / Getty) This article appears in the January 2026 issue. Above all else, grief is intensely personal.
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