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“The Land of the Muses.” How Sardinia Became Italy’s Island of Poets

“The Land of the Muses.” How Sardinia Became Italy’s Island of Poets

Jeff Biggers on the Centuries-Old Tradition of Poetry in Sardinia

By Jeff Biggers | May 25, 2023

Why Eccentrics Find a Natural Home in Fiction

Why Eccentrics Find a Natural Home in Fiction

Carlos Fonseca Finds a New Language in the World of the Outcast

By Carlos Fonseca Suarez | May 25, 2023

Emily Simon on Language Games, Perspective, and Inheriting a Tradition of Complaining

Emily Simon on Language Games, Perspective, and Inheriting a Tradition of Complaining

Ross Simonini Speaks with the Author of In Many Ways

By Ross Simonini | May 25, 2023

Simon Sebag Montefiore on Ancient Star Wars, Pierced Penises, and Steam Baths

Simon Sebag Montefiore on Ancient Star Wars, Pierced Penises, and Steam Baths

The Author of The World Explores the Lives of Roman and Mesoamerican Dynasties

By Simon Sebag Montefiore | May 24, 2023

On Jane Austen and The Lovable Unlikability of Emma Woodhouse

On Jane Austen and The Lovable Unlikability of Emma Woodhouse

Emily Harding Can't Separate the Independent Streak from the Austen Worldview

By Emily Harding | May 24, 2023

Kate Lebo on Making and Remaking Recipes On and Off the Page

Kate Lebo on Making and Remaking Recipes On and Off the Page

“Writing a recipe and reading a recipe are both acts of translation.”

By Kate Lebo | May 24, 2023

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“Outside the Coordinates.” On Crafting Nonfiction That Takes Risks

By Laura Tillman | May 24, 2023

How a Fabulist Painting Showed Jenny Fran Davis the Cover of Dykette

By Jenny Fran Davis | May 24, 2023

On Xi Jinping’s Purges and the Contradictions of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

By Chun Han Wong | May 24, 2023

S.L. Wisenberg on Finding Home in Her Work

S.L. Wisenberg on Finding Home in Her Work

In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But | May 24, 2023

Author Susanna Kaysen Revisits <em>Girl, Interrupted</em> 30 Years After Its Publication

Author Susanna Kaysen Revisits Girl, Interrupted 30 Years After Its Publication

“There was enough blank space in it for people to insert themselves.”

By Susanna Kaysen | May 23, 2023

Why the Idea of Western Civilization is More Myth Than History

Why the Idea of Western Civilization is More Myth Than History

Naoíse Mac Sweeney on Writing a New History of the West

By Naoíse Mac Sweeney | May 23, 2023

Ocean Vuong on the Moral Questions of Fiction

Ocean Vuong on the Moral Questions of Fiction

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | May 23, 2023

Kwame Alexander on the Legacies of Love Passed Down Through Food

Kwame Alexander on the Legacies of Love Passed Down Through Food

Plus a Free Recipe for 7 Up Pound Cake from the Author of Why Fathers Cry at Night

By Kwame Alexander | May 23, 2023

Time For a Change: Rachel Louise Snyder on the Beginning of the End of Her Family

Time For a Change: Rachel Louise Snyder on the Beginning of the End of Her Family

“No child or parent abuse (verbal or physical). Control your anger and your words.”

By Rachel Louise Snyder | May 23, 2023

How Women and Girls Struggle to Pursue Their Interest In Science

How Women and Girls Struggle to Pursue Their Interest In Science

Melissa L. Sevigny on the Need to Tell More Stories About Ordinary Female Scientists

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