On Finding the Strangeness in the Mundane, and Vice Versa

On Finding the Strangeness in the Mundane, and Vice Versa

Alanna Schubach on Balancing the Fantastical with the Familiar

By Alanna Schubach | July 21, 2022

How a <em>Lord of the Rings</em> and Dungeons & Dragons Crossover Almost Happened

How a Lord of the Rings and Dungeons & Dragons Crossover Almost Happened

Ben Riggs on Missed Possibilities in the World of Roleplay Gaming

By Ben Riggs | July 20, 2022

Bad Hollywood: A Reading List to Understand Harvey Weinstein’s Twisted World

Bad Hollywood: A Reading List to Understand Harvey Weinstein’s Twisted World

Ken Auletta Recommends Ronan Farrow, William Goldman, and More

By Ken Auletta | July 20, 2022

How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

Jamil Jan Kochai on Character Building, Storytelling, and Cloud Strife

By Jamil Jan Kochai | July 20, 2022

Crystal Hana Kim on Never Knowing the Full Story of People We Love

Crystal Hana Kim on Never Knowing the Full Story of People We Love

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | July 20, 2022

“A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

“A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

Ash Davidson on Now in November

By Ash Davidson | July 19, 2022

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Justin Taylor on Pursuing “Imaginative Empathy” in Memoir

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How Literature Influenced Adolescent Ideas About Love in the 18th Century

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Bad Seeds and Mad Scientists: On the Build-A-Humans of 19th-Century Literature

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Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Finding Kinship with Eve Babitz and Joan Didion

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Angela Ledgerwood on the Psychic Relief of Reading

Angela Ledgerwood on the Psychic Relief of Reading

In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books

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16 new books to pick up today.

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A Great Man Is Hard to Find: On the Literature of Contemporary Fatherhood

A Great Man Is Hard to Find: On the Literature of Contemporary Fatherhood

Janet Manley Considers The Great Man Theory, Raising Raffi, and Dad-as-Author

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Carole Angier on Fact and Fiction in W.G. Sebald’s Work

Carole Angier on Fact and Fiction in W.G. Sebald’s Work

This Week From the Big Table Podcast with JC Gabel

By Big Table | July 18, 2022

More Than Just Power and Oppression: Six Books About Patriarchs

More Than Just Power and Oppression: Six Books About Patriarchs

Taymour Soomro on Stories of Resistance, Loneliness, and Inheritance.

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How Tom Stoppard Became One of the Best-Known Playwrights in the World

How Tom Stoppard Became One of the Best-Known Playwrights in the World

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

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