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Libraries and Loss: How Our Books (Don’t) Travel With Us

Libraries and Loss: How Our Books (Don’t) Travel With Us

Nasser Al-Dhafiri on Building and Rebuilding His Personal Library

By Nasser Al-Dhafiri and Nashwa Nasreldin | May 8, 2023

What Teaching Shakespeare Taught Me About Writing Horror

What Teaching Shakespeare Taught Me About Writing Horror

Titus Andronicus May Be Bloody, but the Scottish Play and Othello Are Psychological Horror Perfection

By Nicholas Binge | May 8, 2023

Ben Smith on the Internet’s Fatal Addiction to Viral Traffic

Ben Smith on the Internet’s Fatal Addiction to Viral Traffic

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 8, 2023

<em>Viduy</em>, or, Listening to Palestinians With My Mother

Viduy, or, Listening to Palestinians With My Mother

Shalom Auslander Attends The Adelaide Writers' Festival

By Shalom Auslander | May 8, 2023

Matthew Cheney on Literary Misdirection and Hiding Truth in Fiction

Matthew Cheney on Literary Misdirection and Hiding Truth in Fiction

Jeff VanderMeer Speaks With the Author of The Last Vanishing Man and Other Stories

By Jeff VanderMeer | May 8, 2023

On Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler, and Writing a Documentary Novel

On Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler, and Writing a Documentary Novel

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Jeff Jarvis on Why He Still Believes in the Social Potential of the Internet

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How Byron’s Flamboyant Life Shaped His Poetry

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By Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu | May 8, 2023

Passing Through Porous Boundaries: Mai Nardone on Navigating Thai and American Culture

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Letting the Story Go: Field Notes from a Brutal Time

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Janet Steen on Navigating the Loss of Her Brother

By Janet Steen | May 5, 2023

Copiers, Cubicles and Colleagues: A Reading List of Office Novels

Copiers, Cubicles and Colleagues: A Reading List of Office Novels

Tania Malik Recommends Zakiya Dalila Harris, Jack Finney, and More

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