How Do We Define Adulthood in a Time When We’ve Created a Cult of Childhood?

How Do We Define Adulthood in a Time When We’ve Created a Cult of Childhood?

Emma Jacobs in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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On Writing (and Not Writing) About Mutton Biryani

On Writing (and Not Writing) About Mutton Biryani

Nandita Dinesh on Family Recipes and What Goes Unsaid

By Nandita Dinesh | June 17, 2022

Crypto Crashes, Inflation, Gun-Toting White Nationalists... This is Steve Bannon’s Perfect Storm

Crypto Crashes, Inflation, Gun-Toting White Nationalists... This is Steve Bannon’s Perfect Storm

Andrew Keen on the Fragile State of American Democracy

By Andrew Keen | June 17, 2022

Marcy Dermansky on Revising Without Losing Your Mind

Marcy Dermansky on Revising Without Losing Your Mind

"Writing can be a form of absolute play."

By Marcy Dermansky | June 17, 2022

Annie Proulx Revisits William Golding’s <em>Rites of Passage</em>

Annie Proulx Revisits William Golding’s Rites of Passage

“Golding had a fantastic imaginative ability that allowed him into humanity’s more unsavory byways.”

By Annie Proulx | June 17, 2022

Does George Saunders’s <em>Escape From Spiderhead</em> Stand Up on Film?

Does George Saunders’s Escape From Spiderhead Stand Up on Film?

Jonathan Russell Clark on Netflix’s $100 Million Adaptation of a Beloved Short Story

By Jonathan Russell Clark | June 17, 2022

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Turns Out, 1980s Midwesterners Didn’t Want Their Sitcoms Set in Boston Bars

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Why Is It I Keep Seeing the Same Painting Everywhere I Look?

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Finding the One Book My Young Son Would Sit Still To

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Remembering the Potential and Compassion of a Friend Lost to Gun Violence

Remembering the Potential and Compassion of a Friend Lost to Gun Violence

Will Jawando on the Life and Death of His Friend Kalfani

By Will Jawando | June 17, 2022

“Each War Zone Spawns Its Own Bibliography.” On Reading as a Humanitarian Worker

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Gareth Owen Recommends Ben Okri, Barbara Kingsolver, and More

By Gareth Owen | June 17, 2022

Brazilian Rhythms, Queer Longing, and Caio Fernando Abreu: A Literary Playlist

Brazilian Rhythms, Queer Longing, and Caio Fernando Abreu: A Literary Playlist

Bruna Dantas Lobato on the Music That Helps Her Translate

By Bruna Dantas Lobato | June 17, 2022

Why Are Novels About Wealth Almost Absent From the Literary Canon?

Why Are Novels About Wealth Almost Absent From the Literary Canon?

Hernan Diaz in Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | June 17, 2022

Ewen Spencer on What Writers and Photographers Have in Common

Ewen Spencer on What Writers and Photographers Have in Common

In Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 17, 2022

Who's Number One in the Broken Marriage Between the United States and China?

Who's Number One in the Broken Marriage Between the United States and China?

This Week on Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon

By Open Source | June 17, 2022

<em>Behind the Mic</em>: In Conversation with Narrator Rupert Degas

Behind the Mic: In Conversation with Narrator Rupert Degas

Hear From One of This Year’s New Golden Voices

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