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Elias Canetti on Being a Writer in a Tumultuous and Troubling World

Elias Canetti on Being a Writer in a Tumultuous and Troubling World

“The poet is nothing if he does not ceaselessly apply myth to the world around him.”

By Elias Canetti | October 5, 2022

Sex and the 16th Century: How John Donne Learned To Write Love Poetry

Sex and the 16th Century: How John Donne Learned To Write Love Poetry

Katherine Rundell on Love and Literature in the Elizabethan Era

By Katherine Rundell | October 5, 2022

Why Book Festivals Matter, Even in a Time of War

Why Book Festivals Matter, Even in a Time of War

An Invitation to Join the Lviv BookForum, Programmed Virtually Around the World

By Sofia Cheliak | October 5, 2022

“My Journal Became My Confidant.” Coming of Age as a Queer Jamaican Boy in the Belly of America

“My Journal Became My Confidant.” Coming of Age as a Queer Jamaican Boy in the Belly of America

Prince Shakur on Seeking Solace in Books in His Tumultuous Early Teenage Years

By Prince Shakur | October 5, 2022

Samantha Hunt on What It Means to Believe in Ghosts

Samantha Hunt on What It Means to Believe in Ghosts

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | October 5, 2022

Twenty Strangers on a Boat in the Dark: Javier Zamora on His Childhood Migration

Twenty Strangers on a Boat in the Dark: Javier Zamora on His Childhood Migration

From His New Memoir Solito

By Javier Zamora | October 5, 2022

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What Woody Allen’s Manhattan Tells Us About Society’s Relationship With Powerful Men

By Erin Keane | October 5, 2022

“The land of the Mayombe doesn’t want us.” The Brutality and Folly of the Construction of the Congo-Océan Railroad

By J. P. Daughton | October 5, 2022

The Pulse of American Life: On Emily Post’s Evolving Legacy

By Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning | October 5, 2022

From Ovid to Hawthorne, on the Power and Possibility of Retelling Classic Stories

From Ovid to Hawthorne, on the Power and Possibility of Retelling Classic Stories

“Voices we have not heard take the lead.”

By Laurie Lico Albanese | October 5, 2022

The Heart of Genre: Regina Kanyu Wang, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Sheree Renée Thomas on Curating Anthologies

The Heart of Genre: Regina Kanyu Wang, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Sheree Renée Thomas on Curating Anthologies

This Week from Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | October 5, 2022

Arun Sood Reads from <em>New Skin for the Old Ceremony</em>

Arun Sood Reads from New Skin for the Old Ceremony

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | October 5, 2022

How Growing Up in the “Dysfunctional, Small Southern Town” of Washington D.C. Informed A.M. Homes’s New Novel

How Growing Up in the “Dysfunctional, Small Southern Town” of Washington D.C. Informed A.M. Homes’s New Novel

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | October 5, 2022

<em>The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy</em> by Megan Bannen, Read by Michael Gallagher and Rachanee Lumayno

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen, Read by Michael Gallagher and Rachanee Lumayno

A Cozy Fantasy Romance Between a Zombie Hunter and an Undertaker

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Elizabeth McCracken Traces the Life of a First Edition... Her Own

Elizabeth McCracken Traces the Life of a First Edition... Her Own

On the Books We Can Part With, and Those We Can’t

By Elizabeth McCracken | October 4, 2022

How Virologists in China Worked to Warn the World About COVID-19

How Virologists in China Worked to Warn the World About COVID-19

David Quammen on the Origins of the Coronavirus Pandemic

By David Quammen | October 4, 2022

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