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Ellie Robins

Ellie Robins
Ellie Robins writes about myth and stories for the Guardian, the Washington Post, the TLS, and elsewhere. Her translation of Alan Pauls's novel A History of Money was published by Melville House in 2015, and she's worked as an editor in London, Buenos Aires, and New York. Sign up for her newsletter at howtogohome.substack.com


How to Go Home: On Resisting a Very English Hero’s Journey

Ellie Robins Considers the Dangers of the Monomyth
November 3, 2022  By Ellie Robins
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Paul Kingsnorth’s Transhuman Apocalypse Unfolds in an Old English Fenland

Ellie Robins Talks to the Author of Alexandria About Language, Essence, and Violence
October 27, 2020  By Ellie Robins
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Air Travel: From Majesty to Drudgery in 100 Years

From Saint-Exupéry to DeLillo, the Way We Write About Flight
August 18, 2017  By Ellie Robins
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