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Chance Encounters and Intimate Exchanges With Literary Icons

Chance Encounters and Intimate Exchanges With Literary Icons

Jonas Mekas on Stealing Anaïs Nin's Cookies and Receiving Poems from Allen Ginsberg

By Jonas Mekas | October 6, 2017

How a History of Two Pet Chameleons Made a Case for the Animal Soul

How a History of Two Pet Chameleons Made a Case for the Animal Soul

On Madeleine de Scudéry’s History of “The Most Beautiful Animal in the World”

By Peter Sahlins | October 6, 2017

40 of the Creepiest Book Covers of All Time

40 of the Creepiest Book Covers of All Time

Open if You Dare

By Emily Temple | October 6, 2017

Kazuo Ishiguro on Song Lyrics, Scones, and the Life He Could Have Had

Kazuo Ishiguro on Song Lyrics, Scones, and the Life He Could Have Had

The New Nobel Prize Winner in Conversation with John Freeman

By John Freeman | October 5, 2017

To Avoid Abuse, I Became Anansi the Trickster

To Avoid Abuse, I Became Anansi the Trickster

For Freeman's, Garnette Cadogan on a Childhood Hiding Behind Fictions

By Garnette Cadogan | October 5, 2017

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Kazuo Ishiguro

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Kazuo Ishiguro

Author of Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go

By Emily Temple | October 5, 2017

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Is America in a Period of Moral Decline?

John Biguenet on Summoning the Resolve to Call Out Evil Wherever it Lives

By John Biguenet | October 5, 2017

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If Your Book Presumes an Entirely White World, It's Not Universal

Why Writing and Reading About Race is a Privilege, Not a Burden

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Haruki Murakami on His Favorite Young Novelist: Mieko Kawakami

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How Death Became Big Business in America

How Death Became Big Business in America

And Why We Need to Be Less Dismissive of Other Cultures' Funeral Rituals

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