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The Power of Passivity: On Choosing to Do Nothing

The Power of Passivity: On Choosing to Do Nothing

Maura Lammers Considers the Role of Inaction in Fiction and in Real Life

By Maura Lammers | December 13, 2023

Phyllis Rose on Writing About Real People in Nonfiction, Making Your Diaries Public, and More

Phyllis Rose on Writing About Real People in Nonfiction, Making Your Diaries Public, and More

Rumena Bužarovska Talks with the Author of The Year of Reading Proust

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Judith Tick on How Ella Fitzgerald Transformed America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 13, 2023

Anne Enright on Growing Up in Ireland

Anne Enright on Growing Up in Ireland

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | December 13, 2023

One Naomi, Two Naomis, Three: The Too-Real Experience of Reading Naomi Klein’s <em>Doppelgänger</em>

One Naomi, Two Naomis, Three: The Too-Real Experience of Reading Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger

Naomi J. Williams on Being Mistaken for Other Naomis in Art and Life

By Naomi J. Williams | December 12, 2023

Hidden No More: Why Women’s Contributions to the Italian Renaissance Matter

Hidden No More: Why Women’s Contributions to the Italian Renaissance Matter

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By Meredith K. Ray | December 12, 2023

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By Marion Turner | December 11, 2023

Memories Lost and Found: On the Photography of Binh Danh

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“Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion.”

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Embracing Uncertainty: In Defense of Question-Seeking Criticism

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