How Our Social Emotions Laid the Foundation for Functioning Societies

How Our Social Emotions Laid the Foundation for Functioning Societies

Leonard Mlodinow Considers the Purpose of Shame, Admiration, Jealousy and More

By Leonard Mlodinow | January 12, 2022

Megan Nolan Reads from Her Visceral Novel, <em>Acts of Desperation</em>

Megan Nolan Reads from Her Visceral Novel, Acts of Desperation

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | January 12, 2022

A Writer with the Heart of a Dog: Early Reviews of Jack London’s <em>The Call of the Wild</em>

A Writer with the Heart of a Dog: Early Reviews of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild

“Jack London seems to possess an intuition of the dog life.”

By Book Marks | January 12, 2022

<em>Once Upon A Wardrobe</em> by Patti Callahan, Read by Fiona Hardingham

Once Upon A Wardrobe by Patti Callahan, Read by Fiona Hardingham

On the Power of Stories

By Behind the Mic | January 12, 2022

Jericho Brown on Claude McKay’s Subversive, Foundational Poems of Love and Protest

Jericho Brown on Claude McKay’s Subversive, Foundational Poems of Love and Protest

“In Harlem Shadows McKay used form to inscribe the fact of his own Blackness.”

By Jericho Brown | January 11, 2022

Life and Death Among the Vanished in the Himalayas’ Parvati Valley

Life and Death Among the Vanished in the Himalayas’ Parvati Valley

Harley Rustad on the Mystery of the Disappeared

By Harley Rustad | January 11, 2022

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Gwen E. Kirby on Her Literary “Stabby Period”

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Ben H. Winters on Writing His Most Personal Book

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Featuring Sequoia Nagamatsu, Weike Wang, and More

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A Poem from Vijay Seshadri's Collection, That Was Now, This Is Then

By Vijay Seshadri | January 11, 2022

Violent Currents and Heads on Fire: Readings by Scott Mitchel May, Adam Ai, and Claire Taylor

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From Micro, a Podcast for Short But Powerful Writing

By Micro Podcast | January 11, 2022

“It Turned Out That It’s Possible.” Lejla Kalamujić on Being Openly Gay in Sarajevo

“It Turned Out That It’s Possible.” Lejla Kalamujić on Being Openly Gay in Sarajevo

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<em>Madam</em> by Debby Applegate, Read by Erin Bennett

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