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What the Animal World Can Teach Us About Human Nature

What the Animal World Can Teach Us About Human Nature

A Conversation Between Carl Safina and Nick McDonell

By Nick McDonell | July 23, 2021

WATCH: A. Natasha Joukovsky in Conversation with Lauren Oyler

WATCH: A. Natasha Joukovsky in Conversation with Lauren Oyler

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By The Virtual Book Channel | July 23, 2021

Toward a Syllabus for Modern Grieving

Toward a Syllabus for Modern Grieving

From Yaa Gyasi to Joan Silber Beth Kissileff Finds Consolation in Reading

By Beth Kissileff | July 23, 2021

Writing a Fictionalized Apocalypse Does Not Prepare You For a Real One

Writing a Fictionalized Apocalypse Does Not Prepare You For a Real One

Geoff Rodkey on Accepting the Realities of Civilization-Ending Calamity

By Geoff Rodkey | July 23, 2021

Translating at the Blurred Edge of Memoir and Fiction

Translating at the Blurred Edge of Memoir and Fiction

K.E. Semmel on Mathilde Walter Clark’s Lone Star

By K. E. Semmel | July 23, 2021

Zadie Smith on Reading While You Write

Zadie Smith on Reading While You Write

How Writers Speak to One Another Across Time and Space

By Zadie Smith | July 23, 2021

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On Freaks and Geeks and Finding My Voice: How Pop Culture Shaped My Poetry

By Matt Mitchell | July 22, 2021

Why Yaa Gyasi Wants Us to Remember the Brain Is an Organ

By The Maris Review | July 22, 2021

The Heteronymous Identities of Fernando Pessoa

By Richard Zenith | July 22, 2021

Native Comedian Adrianne Chalepah Against Pandering to White Audiences

Native Comedian Adrianne Chalepah Against Pandering to White Audiences

This Week from the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | July 22, 2021

On Eileen Myles’ <em>Inferno</em>, and the “Poets Novel”

On Eileen Myles’ Inferno, and the “Poets Novel”

Cedar Sigo on Texts That Focus on the Poet, Rather Than the Poetry

By Cedar Sigo | July 22, 2021

The Attack of Difficult <strike>Women</strike> Prose

The Attack of Difficult Women Prose

Gail Scott Considers Lit-Crit’s Underestimation of Female Genius

By Gail Scott | July 22, 2021

WATCH: Natalie Diaz on Criminalized Resistance and Writing Like She Played Basketball

WATCH: Natalie Diaz on Criminalized Resistance and Writing Like She Played Basketball

From the Border Crossings' ORIGINS Festival

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Reginald Dwayne Betts on Living Between the Poles of Yale-Educated Lawyer and Prison-Educated Poet

Reginald Dwayne Betts on Living Between the Poles of Yale-Educated Lawyer and Prison-Educated Poet

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | July 21, 2021

WATCH: Zakiya Dalila Harris in Conversation with Brit Bennett

WATCH: Zakiya Dalila Harris in Conversation with Brit Bennett

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Rivka Galchen on Her Instinct to Abandon Projects

Rivka Galchen on Her Instinct to Abandon Projects

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