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Mel Brooks on the Making of <em>Spaceballs</em>

Mel Brooks on the Making of Spaceballs

“I thought, Science fiction! Now there’s a genre I haven’t wrecked yet…”

By Mel Brooks | December 16, 2021

Breaking the Cycle: Confronting Fascism in Chile’s Presidential Election

Breaking the Cycle: Confronting Fascism in Chile’s Presidential Election

Writers Mónica-Ramón Ríos and Carlos Labbé on the Candidacy of José Antonio Kast

By Mónica-Ramón Ríos and Carlos Labbé | December 16, 2021

A Visit to Rüstem’s Bookshop, Cyprus’s Historic Bookstore-Café

A Visit to Rüstem’s Bookshop, Cyprus’s Historic Bookstore-Café

On the History of an Important Cultural Center

By Harrison Blackman | December 16, 2021

How to Make a Better World Without Centering Yourself: A Conversation with Alex McElroy

How to Make a Better World Without Centering Yourself: A Conversation with Alex McElroy

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | December 16, 2021

Demystifying Absentmindedness with Lisa Genova’s <em>Remember</em>

Demystifying Absentmindedness with Lisa Genova’s Remember

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | December 16, 2021

What the Stoics Understood About Death (And Can Teach Us)

What the Stoics Understood About Death (And Can Teach Us)

David Fideler on What Awareness of Mortality Does to a Life

By David Fideler | December 16, 2021

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“Phone Book”

By John Keene | December 16, 2021

WATCH: Chloe Dulce Louvouezo, Eniafebiafe Isis Adewale, Nneka Julia, and Julee Wilson Discuss Black Women, Self-Love, and More

By The Virtual Book Channel | December 16, 2021

Dorie Greenspan Still Finds Joy in Baking

By Just the Right Book | December 16, 2021

“I Think About <em>Don Quixote</em> a Lot.” Robin McLean on Narrative Versus Thought

“I Think About Don Quixote a Lot.” Robin McLean on Narrative Versus Thought

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | December 16, 2021

<em>A Snake Falls to Earth</em> by Darcie Little Badger, Read by Shaun Taylor-Corbett and Kinsale Hueston

A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger, Read by Shaun Taylor-Corbett and Kinsale Hueston

A YA Fantasy Celebrating Friendship and Storytelling

By Behind the Mic | December 16, 2021

How to Write (Almost) Anything: A Very Serious Guide by Tom Bissell

How to Write (Almost) Anything: A Very Serious Guide by Tom Bissell

“Even when you are not ‘working on the book,’ you are working on the book.”

By Tom Bissell | December 15, 2021

Five Medieval Tales That Should Immediately Be Made Into Movies

Five Medieval Tales That Should Immediately Be Made Into Movies

Preferably with Oscar Isaac, Please

By Matthew Gabriele and David Perry | December 15, 2021

A Case for Withdrawing the Genre of “Christian Fiction”

A Case for Withdrawing the Genre of “Christian Fiction”

Chelsea Leah on (Non-Religiously) Reading Religious Books

By Chelsea Leah | December 15, 2021

“Garbo Talks!” On the 1930 Sound Film That Gave Greta a Voice

“Garbo Talks!” On the 1930 Sound Film That Gave Greta a Voice

Robert Gottlieb Describes the World’s Reaction to That “Husky, Throaty Contralto”

By Robert Gottlieb | December 15, 2021

Notable Literary Deaths in 2021

Notable Literary Deaths in 2021

An Incomplete List of the Writers, Editors, and Great Literary Minds We Lost This Year

By Emily Temple | December 15, 2021

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