How Ancient Rome’s Descent Into Autocracy Mirrors the Fragility of Our Own Political Systems

How Ancient Rome’s Descent Into Autocracy Mirrors the Fragility of Our Own Political Systems

Barry Strauss on the Rise of Octavian, Julius Caesar’s Imperial Successor

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How Do We Live with the Knowledge That We'll Die?

How Do We Live with the Knowledge That We'll Die?

The Lit Century Podcast Reads The Denial of Death

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How Does Language During Sex Translate Across Cultures?

How Does Language During Sex Translate Across Cultures?

Polly Barton on the Way We Communicate in the Bedroom

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72 Hours in Philly: The Writers’ Guide to AWP 2022

72 Hours in Philly: The Writers’ Guide to AWP 2022

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When People Assume Your Fiction is About Your Life

When People Assume Your Fiction is About Your Life

Alejandro Varela on the Everlasting Struggle of Writers to Explain Otherwise

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Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked <em>Belfast</em>

Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked Belfast

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How the Absence of a Funeral Makes Death So Much Harder For the Living

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Golden Girls and Dinosaurs: Readings by Rodrick Minor, Anna Cabe, and Tara Campbell

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<em>A Sunlit Weapon</em> by Jacqueline Winspear, Read by Orlagh Cassidy

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A New Adventure with Maisie Dobbs

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“I wish you a sexy, dangerous, jazz-shaped immortality.“ Diane Seuss’s Advice for Life as a Writer

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Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked <em>Drive My Car</em>

Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked Drive My Car

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Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked <em>King Richard</em>

Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked King Richard

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Why We Need More Writers Practicing Medicine (and Vice Versa)

Why We Need More Writers Practicing Medicine (and Vice Versa)

Xi Chen Looks at Two Unexpectedly Intertwined Professions

By Xi Chen | March 21, 2022

Every Coming-of-Age Story is an Apocalypse Story

Every Coming-of-Age Story is an Apocalypse Story

Andrew DeYoung on Despair and Hope in the Edgelands of Adulthood

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