What Rituals Across Cultures Reveal About the Human Condition

What Rituals Across Cultures Reveal About the Human Condition

Dimitris Xygalatas on the Healing Properties of Risky Behavior

By Dimitris Xygalatas | September 14, 2022

What a Scandalous 1922 Murder Tells Us About America’s Current Obsession With True Crime

What a Scandalous 1922 Murder Tells Us About America’s Current Obsession With True Crime

Joe Pompeo in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 14, 2022

Author-Illustrator Dan Santat on the Magic of Fractured Fairy Tales

Author-Illustrator Dan Santat on the Magic of Fractured Fairy Tales

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | September 14, 2022

How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Crisis and How Reading Plato Can Help Cure it

How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Crisis and How Reading Plato Can Help Cure it

Nicholas Kardaras in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 14, 2022

How Getting Beyond Neoliberal Economics Can Enable America to Restore Its Greatness

How Getting Beyond Neoliberal Economics Can Enable America to Restore Its Greatness

Thom Hartmann in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 14, 2022

Susan Choi on the Range of Language's Possibilities in Raymond Carver and Grace Paley

Susan Choi on the Range of Language's Possibilities in Raymond Carver and Grace Paley

This Week on The Writers Institute Podcast, From the Archives of the New York State Writers Institute

By The Writers Institute | September 14, 2022

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Life on the Mississippi by Rinker Buck, Read by Jason Culp

By Behind the Mic | September 14, 2022

Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton Answer Your Questions About Writing and Storytelling

By Ursa | September 14, 2022

Read William Faulkner’s 1952 Adulation of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

By Book Marks | September 13, 2022

Was It Ever Possible For One Person To Read Every Book Ever Written (in English)?

Was It Ever Possible For One Person To Read Every Book Ever Written (in English)?

Randall Munroe Provides a Serious Answer To a Very Hypothetical Literary Question

By Randall Munroe | September 13, 2022

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Featuring A.M. Homes, Hua Hsu, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, and More!

By Teddy Wayne | September 13, 2022

Naming What Can Be Lost: Matthew Zapruder on Poems for Dire Times

Naming What Can Be Lost: Matthew Zapruder on Poems for Dire Times

“The greatest poems demand change. Maybe we need to change to meet them.”

By Matthew Zapruder | September 13, 2022

Ling Ma on Patterns of Return and the Ways Speculative Fiction Helps Illuminate Real Life

Ling Ma on Patterns of Return and the Ways Speculative Fiction Helps Illuminate Real Life

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Bliss Montage

By Jane Ciabattari | September 13, 2022

Chantal V. Johnson on Letting the Reader Be Smarter Than Her Character

Chantal V. Johnson on Letting the Reader Be Smarter Than Her Character

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

By I'm a Writer But | September 13, 2022

Deforming Medium: A Reading List of Experimental Points of View

Deforming Medium: A Reading List of Experimental Points of View

Jonathan Dee Recommends Gustave Flaubert, Imbolo Mbue, William Maxwell, and More

By Jonathan Dee | September 13, 2022

<em>The Rising Tide</em> by Ann Cleeves, Read by Janine Birkett

The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves, Read by Janine Birkett

Back on the Case with DI Vera Stanhope

By Behind the Mic | September 13, 2022

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