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Mary Jo Bang Wonders Why It Takes So Long to Meet Beatrice in Dante’s <em>Inferno</em>

Mary Jo Bang Wonders Why It Takes So Long to Meet Beatrice in Dante’s Inferno

Considering the Scarcity of Female Characters in the Cantos

By Mary Jo Bang | July 26, 2021

Tales of a Bright Young Sportswriter at the 1969 NBA Finals

Tales of a Bright Young Sportswriter at the 1969 NBA Finals

Leigh Montville on Covering One of Sport’s Great Rivalries: the Celtics vs. the Lakers

By Leigh Montville | July 26, 2021

How an 18th-Century Cookbook Offers Glimpses of Jane Austen’s Domestic Life

How an 18th-Century Cookbook Offers Glimpses of Jane Austen’s Domestic Life

Julienne Gehrer Takes a Closer Look at Martha Lloyd’s Household Book

By Julienne Gehrer | July 26, 2021

Would You Give Up Air-Conditioning If You Knew It Would Save the Planet?

Would You Give Up Air-Conditioning If You Knew It Would Save the Planet?

Eric Dean Wilson on the Perpetual American Need for Comfort

By Eric Dean Wilson | July 26, 2021

Alix Ohlin on How to Map the Shape of Your Short Story

Alix Ohlin on How to Map the Shape of Your Short Story

The Author of We Want What We Want Tries to Find the Shape of Things in Alice Munro, Ocean Vuong, and More

By Alix Ohlin | July 26, 2021

Meg Tilly on the Crossover Between Acting in Thrillers and Writing Them

Meg Tilly on the Crossover Between Acting in Thrillers and Writing Them

From the History of Literature with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | July 26, 2021

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WATCH: Kiese Laymon in Conversation with Robert Jones, Jr.

By The Virtual Book Channel | July 26, 2021

On Molly Williams, One of America’s First Female Firefighters

By Jaime Lowe | July 26, 2021

“Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves.” A Poem by J. Drew Lanham

By Emergence Magazine | July 26, 2021

Richard Leider on Growing into Yourself with Age

Richard Leider on Growing into Yourself with Age

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | July 26, 2021

Finding the Fault Lines Beneath Auroville’s Utopian Dreams

Finding the Fault Lines Beneath Auroville’s Utopian Dreams

Akash Kapur on the Dangers of Searching for Something That Isn’t There

By Akash Kapur | July 26, 2021

Tobey Pearl on the Beginnings of America’s Judicial System

Tobey Pearl on the Beginnings of America’s Judicial System

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | July 26, 2021

<em>The Cellist</em> by Daniel Silva, Read by Edoardo Ballerini

The Cellist by Daniel Silva, Read by Edoardo Ballerini

A New Voice for a Favorite Series

By Behind the Mic | July 26, 2021

What the Animal World Can Teach Us About Human Nature

What the Animal World Can Teach Us About Human Nature

A Conversation Between Carl Safina and Nick McDonell

By Nick McDonell | July 23, 2021

From Bessie Smith to Beyoncé: On the Black Women Singers Archiving the American Struggle

From Bessie Smith to Beyoncé: On the Black Women Singers Archiving the American Struggle

Daphne Brooks Guests on the Radio Open Source Podcast

By Open Source | July 23, 2021

Kempt, Couth, Ruth: On the Disappearing Antonyms of “Grumpy” Words

Kempt, Couth, Ruth: On the Disappearing Antonyms of “Grumpy” Words

Arika Okrent Wonders Why Negative Descriptors Tend to Outlast Their Positive Counterparts

By Arika Okrent | July 23, 2021

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