Rolling the Dice: What Gambling Can Teach Us About Probability

Rolling the Dice: What Gambling Can Teach Us About Probability

Tom Chivers on the Historical Origins of the Science of Statistics

By Tom Chivers | May 23, 2024

Anna Noyes on How Residencies and New Routines Create New Neural Pathways (and Help You Write Better)

Anna Noyes on How Residencies and New Routines Create New Neural Pathways (and Help You Write Better)

Mira Ptacin in Conversation with the Author of “The Blue Maiden”

By Mira Ptacin | May 23, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The Great American Novel is a long-dead cultural aspiration.”

By Book Marks | May 23, 2024

How Walmart’s Business Model Encourages Gender Discrimination

How Walmart’s Business Model Encourages Gender Discrimination

Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levit Explore the Impact of Extreme Cost-Cutting on Labor Rights

By Naomi Cahn, June Carbone and Nancy Levit | May 23, 2024

An Action Rom-Com? Yes, <em>Hit Man</em> is a Surefire Delight

An Action Rom-Com? Yes, Hit Man is a Surefire Delight

Olivia Rutigliano on Richard Linklater and Glen Powell's New Movie

By Olivia Rutigliano | May 23, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Zoë Bossiere Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Zoë Bossiere Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Katya Apekina, Zoë Schlanger, and Others

By Diana Arterian | May 23, 2024

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  • House of Day, House of Night
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  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
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  • The Six Loves of James I

Monica Youn on PEN, Activism at Literary Awards, and Gaza

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 23, 2024

What the NFT Phenomenon Tells Us About the Monetary and Creative Value of Art

By Zachary Small | May 22, 2024

“To Become a Poet is to Step Into the Void.” Brian Henry on Slovenian Poet Tomaž Šalamun

By Literary Hub | May 22, 2024

On the Joys of Following Literary Instinct Wherever It Leads

On the Joys of Following Literary Instinct Wherever It Leads

Leah Hager Cohen Asks: “Can anything compare to the wonder of being lost?”

By Leah Hager Cohen | May 22, 2024

Snapshots of Life: Storytelling and Outlaw Culture in Eastern Kentucky

Snapshots of Life: Storytelling and Outlaw Culture in Eastern Kentucky

Bobi Conn Explores Her Appalachian Family’s Long Tradition of Unreliable Narrators and Morally Gray Characters

By Bobi Conn | May 22, 2024

The Cosmic Library on Stories and Sleep

The Cosmic Library on Stories and Sleep

This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman

By The Cosmic Library | May 22, 2024

Ersin Han Ersin on Making the Invisible Visible

Ersin Han Ersin on Making the Invisible Visible

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | May 22, 2024

Oprah’s Book Club and... Dying? How Do Writers Get Famous

Oprah’s Book Club and... Dying? How Do Writers Get Famous

Cass R. Sunstein Considers the Factors and Trends That Lead to Literary Recognition

By Cass R. Sunstein | May 21, 2024

A More Imperfect Union: How Differing National Visions Divided the North and the South

A More Imperfect Union: How Differing National Visions Divided the North and the South

Alan Taylor on the Fragile Facade of Republicanism in 19th Century America

By Alan Taylor | May 21, 2024

Kevin Kwan on His Love of Classics (Even if He’s Still Never Read <em>Middlemarch</em>)

Kevin Kwan on His Love of Classics (Even if He’s Still Never Read Middlemarch)

The Author of “Lies and Weddings” Recommends Evelyn Waugh and Alan Hollinghurst

By Kevin Kwan | May 21, 2024

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