The Marvelous Real: Leonardo Padura on Alejo Carpentier's <em>The Lost Steps</em>

The Marvelous Real: Leonardo Padura on Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps

"Art entails a kind of knowledge that is undoubtedly transcendent in character. And yet art must be, is, something more."

By Leonardo Padura | September 18, 2023

Recognition Chains: How Digital Platforms Influence What We Consume

Recognition Chains: How Digital Platforms Influence What We Consume

Harvard Sociologist Michèle Lamont on the Transformation of the Media

By Michèle Lamont | September 18, 2023

Maria Ressa on Fighting for the Future

Maria Ressa on Fighting for the Future

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 18, 2023

James Shapiro on Shakespeare and America

James Shapiro on Shakespeare and America

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | September 18, 2023

James McBride on Going on Faith

James McBride on Going on Faith

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | September 18, 2023

Ghassan Zeineddine on What Short Stories Do That Novels Can’t

Ghassan Zeineddine on What Short Stories Do That Novels Can’t

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | September 18, 2023

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Art Books Extraordinaire: 10 of Phaidon's Most Innovative Titles of the Past Century

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Kathleen Rooney on Writing Architecturally

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Making Formulas Fresh Again: A Reading List of Fantasy Tropes Reimagined

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Naomi S. Baron on the Tension Between Efficiency and Humanity

Naomi S. Baron on the Tension Between Efficiency and Humanity

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Mike Rothschild on 200 Years of Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories

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Committing to the High Romance of <em>The Notebook</em>

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