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What If the Stories We Tell in Order to Live Happen to Be Conspiracy Theories?

What If the Stories We Tell in Order to Live Happen to Be Conspiracy Theories?

William J. Bernstein on the Evolutionary Origins of Collective Delusion

By William J. Bernstein | January 15, 2021

Trying to Teach English Literature in the Wake of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Trying to Teach English Literature in the Wake of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Kim Echlin on Morality, Mythology, and the Double Life of Totalitarianism

By Kim Echlin | January 15, 2021

On Learning to Speak Dutch and the Art of Doing Nothing

On Learning to Speak Dutch and the Art of Doing Nothing

Olga Mecking Realizes How Hard It is to Literally Do Nothing

By Olga Mecking | January 15, 2021

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Powerful 1960 Letter From<br> Big Rock Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Powerful 1960 Letter From
Big Rock Jail

Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick on the Meaning of Protest,
Justice, and Equality

By Stephen and Paul Kendrick | January 15, 2021

Writing the Human Element Into Climate Change Via Those Most At Risk

Writing the Human Element Into Climate Change Via Those Most At Risk

Claire Holroyde on the Wayãpi of the Nipukú River and
Her Debut Novel

By Claire Holroyde | January 15, 2021

Horace Julian Bond Recounts Witnessing the Little Rock Nine from Afar

Horace Julian Bond Recounts Witnessing the Little Rock Nine from Afar

"The Little Rock crisis energized American Black people who watched the drama unfold on television."

By Horace Julian Bond | January 15, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Writing and Activism: Farzana Doctor's Seven Joins the Movement to Ban Female Genital Mutilation

By New Books Network | January 15, 2021

The Long Goodbye: Reconciling with the End of Nature

By Madeleine Watts | January 14, 2021

What Will We Teach Future Students About the Capitol Insurrection of 2021?

By Samantha Tucker | January 14, 2021

In Favor of Speed:<br> Write Fast, Fix Later

In Favor of Speed:
Write Fast, Fix Later

Mateo Askaripour Offers a Method of Getting the Work Done

By Mateo Askaripour | January 14, 2021

Our Lies: Jenny Offill and James Plath on Conspiracy Theories in History and Literature

Our Lies: Jenny Offill and James Plath on Conspiracy Theories in History and Literature

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell
on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 14, 2021

Caitlin Horrocks on Life in Michigan, the Love of Sleep, and Novels vs. Short Stories

Caitlin Horrocks on Life in Michigan, the Love of Sleep, and Novels vs. Short Stories

The Author of Life Among the Terranauts Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | January 14, 2021

The Importance of Getting Food Right in Fiction

The Importance of Getting Food Right in Fiction

Jamie Harrison on the Relationship Between Eating, Love, and Memory

By Jamie Harrison | January 14, 2021

How Will America Address the Post-COVID Wave of Homelessness?

How Will America Address the Post-COVID Wave of Homelessness?

Dale Maharidge Talks to Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | January 14, 2021

Question for American Fascists: What on Earth Do You Lack?

Question for American Fascists: What on Earth Do You Lack?

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | January 14, 2021

Today, Tsitsi Dangarembga was awarded the 2021 PEN Award for Freedom of Expression.

Today, Tsitsi Dangarembga was awarded the 2021 PEN Award for Freedom of Expression.

By Rasheeda Saka | January 13, 2021

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