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What If the Stories We Tell in Order to Live Happen to Be Conspiracy Theories?

What If the Stories We Tell in Order to Live Happen to Be Conspiracy Theories?

William J. Bernstein on the Evolutionary Origins of Collective Delusion

By William J. Bernstein | January 15, 2021

Trying to Teach English Literature in the Wake of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Trying to Teach English Literature in the Wake of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Kim Echlin on Morality, Mythology, and the Double Life of Totalitarianism

By Kim Echlin | January 15, 2021

On Learning to Speak Dutch and the Art of Doing Nothing

On Learning to Speak Dutch and the Art of Doing Nothing

Olga Mecking Realizes How Hard It is to Literally Do Nothing

By Olga Mecking | January 15, 2021

How Honest is Too Honest? 6 Books That Straddle That Line

How Honest is Too Honest? 6 Books That Straddle That Line

Michael Leviton Recommends Richard Wright,
Joyce Maynard, and More

By Michael Leviton | January 15, 2021

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COVID-19’s ‘Anthropause’ Has Made Nature Visible Again—At Least for Now

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By Emergence Magazine | January 15, 2021

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Powerful 1960 Letter From<br> Big Rock Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Powerful 1960 Letter From
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Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick on the Meaning of Protest,
Justice, and Equality

By Stephen and Paul Kendrick | January 15, 2021

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Writing the Human Element Into Climate Change Via Those Most At Risk

By Claire Holroyde | January 15, 2021

Horace Julian Bond Recounts Witnessing the Little Rock Nine from Afar

By Horace Julian Bond | January 15, 2021

What We Can Learn from Animals About the Value of Productivity

By Keen On | January 15, 2021

Why Kim Stanley Robinson Wrote a New Cli-Fi Novel... in Which Things Actually Get Better

Why Kim Stanley Robinson Wrote a New Cli-Fi Novel... in Which Things Actually Get Better

In Conversation with Rob Wolf on the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | January 15, 2021

Amyra León on How Frida Kahlo Influenced Her to Write the Wound

Amyra León on How Frida Kahlo Influenced Her to Write the Wound

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Writing and Activism: Farzana Doctor's <em>Seven</em> Joins the Movement to Ban Female Genital Mutilation

Writing and Activism: Farzana Doctor's Seven Joins the Movement to Ban Female Genital Mutilation

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Revisiting the Brontës... Through Branwell's Reputed Affair

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The Decameron Project Edited by The New York Times, Read by a Full Cast

Short Stories Centered on COVID-19

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The Long Goodbye: Reconciling with the End of Nature

The Long Goodbye: Reconciling with the End of Nature

Madeleine Watts on Life in a Slow Motion Crisis

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Will Self: How Should We Read?

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