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Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde
Lewis Hyde is the author of Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art and The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, as well as a book of poems, This Error Is the Sign of Love.


From Burning Man to Industrial Rome, Gift-Giving as Ritualized, Collective Offering

Lewis Hyde on the Anniversary of His Bestselling Book The Gift
October 21, 2019  By Lewis Hyde
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On the Intoxicating Power of Forgetting Where You Came From

Lewis Hyde Explores the Egoism of Memory and Self-Making
June 18, 2019  By Lewis Hyde
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