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How Nelson Mandela Became a Pop-Cultural Icon Through Music

How Nelson Mandela Became a Pop-Cultural Icon Through Music

Jonny Steinberg on Jerry Dammers and How a Famous Concert in the 1980s Brought Mandela New Fame

By Jonny Steinberg | May 11, 2023

Michael Walzer on What Progressives Can Learn From Liberal Nationalists Like Thomas Jefferson and Giuseppe Mazzini

Michael Walzer on What Progressives Can Learn From Liberal Nationalists Like Thomas Jefferson and Giuseppe Mazzini

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 11, 2023

What We’re Reading at <em>Just the Right Book</em> This Week

What We’re Reading at Just the Right Book This Week

Roxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein Weigh in With Recommendations

By Just the Right Book | May 11, 2023

How Chaos Theory Can Revitalize—and Save—Modern Medicine

How Chaos Theory Can Revitalize—and Save—Modern Medicine

Jennifer Lunden on Alice James, Descartes' Destructive Influence on Medicine, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and More

By Jennifer Lunden | May 10, 2023

On Victorian Paleoart and the Birth of a Sci-Fi Novel

On Victorian Paleoart and the Birth of a Sci-Fi Novel

C. E. McGill Considers Frankenstein’s Monster and Gothic Sci-Fi

By C.E. McGill | May 10, 2023

How <em>Hamnet</em> the Play Rehabilitates Shakespeare’s Wife

How Hamnet the Play Rehabilitates Shakespeare’s Wife

Andrew Quintana Reviews a Dramatic Adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Novel

By Andrew Quintana | May 10, 2023

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Reading Beyond London’s WWII “Blitz Spirit”

By Jo Baker | May 10, 2023

Dave Eggers: “The Freedom of the Artist Has to Be Absolute.”

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 10, 2023

Emma Nadler on How Good and Bad Luck Are Inseparably Connected

By Keen On | May 10, 2023

Joanne Harris Reads from Her New Thriller <em> Broken Light</em>

Joanne Harris Reads from Her New Thriller Broken Light

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | May 10, 2023

Mariana Alessandri on How the Natural Human Condition is to Live in Darkness, Anger, and Pain

Mariana Alessandri on How the Natural Human Condition is to Live in Darkness, Anger, and Pain

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 10, 2023

Landon Jones on How America Has Devolved Into a Culture of Fans and Followers

Landon Jones on How America Has Devolved Into a Culture of Fans and Followers

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 10, 2023

Tracing the Evolution of Celebrity Memoirs, from Charles Lindbergh to Will Smith

Tracing the Evolution of Celebrity Memoirs, from Charles Lindbergh to Will Smith

”Creating a personal myth allows celebrities to create just that—a myth.“

By Landon Y. Jones | May 9, 2023

Stripping Back the Mother-Daughter Relationship... At <em>Magic Mike Live</em> in Vegas

Stripping Back the Mother-Daughter Relationship... At Magic Mike Live in Vegas

Connie Wang and Her Mother Have Fun and Get Loose

By Connie Wang | May 9, 2023

Kelly McMasters on Starting a Bookstore to Save Her Marriage

Kelly McMasters on Starting a Bookstore to Save Her Marriage

“And so, I kept pumping the bellows, trying to keep the fire between us burning.”

By Kelly McMasters | May 9, 2023

Dave Eggers on Writing from the Subconscious

Dave Eggers on Writing from the Subconscious

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | May 9, 2023

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