We All Know Columbus Didn’t Discover America—So How Did He Become a Symbol of Its Founding?

We All Know Columbus Didn’t Discover America—So How Did He Become a Symbol of Its Founding?

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on the Erasure of This Continent’s Original Inhabitants

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | August 25, 2021

Eula Biss on the Essay’s Amenability to Ambivalence

Eula Biss on the Essay’s Amenability to Ambivalence

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | August 25, 2021

How Does the Biological Heart Have to Do With Our Emotions?

How Does the Biological Heart Have to Do With Our Emotions?

Reinhard Friedl on the Relationship Between the Body’s Mechanisms and Its Feelings

By Reinhard Friedl | August 25, 2021

The Life and Death of Robert Capa: How a Woman Invented the First Great War Photographer

The Life and Death of Robert Capa: How a Woman Invented the First Great War Photographer

Giles Tremlett on Gerda Taro, Who Documented the Spanish Civil War and Died in Action

By Giles Tremlett | August 25, 2021

Katie Crouch in Praise of the Not-Perfectly-Plotted Novel

Katie Crouch in Praise of the Not-Perfectly-Plotted Novel

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | August 25, 2021

The Beginning of the End: Who Do We Become in the Face of a Parent’s Death?

The Beginning of the End: Who Do We Become in the Face of a Parent’s Death?

Kat Chow on Losing Her Mother, Memory, and Writing About Illness

By Kat Chow | August 25, 2021

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Why is Yves Saint Laurent’s “Sardine Dress” So Compelling?

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Casey Schwartz on Adderall and the Modern Landscape of Attention

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David Sumpter on the Mathematics of Winning at Life

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In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 25, 2021

<em>Footnotes</em> by Caseen Gaines, Read by the Author

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The History of Shuffle Along, the First All-Black Musical

By Behind the Mic | August 25, 2021

Meron Hadero on Writing Ethiopia and the Persistence of Hope

Meron Hadero on Writing Ethiopia and the Persistence of Hope

This Week from the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | August 25, 2021

Charlie Jane Anders and Becky Chambers on the Power of Storytelling (and Tea!)

Charlie Jane Anders and Becky Chambers on the Power of Storytelling (and Tea!)

This Week from Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | August 25, 2021

I Bark, Therefore I Am: Of Consciousness and Robot Dogs

I Bark, Therefore I Am: Of Consciousness and Robot Dogs

Meghan O’Gieblyn Considers Issues of Mind, Matter, and Soul

By Meghan O'Gieblyn | August 24, 2021

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on Writing Place and Juggling Projects

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on Writing Place and Juggling Projects

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

By Jane Ciabattari | August 24, 2021

JRR Tolkien Invented the Term “Eucatastrophe.” What Does It Mean?

JRR Tolkien Invented the Term “Eucatastrophe.” What Does It Mean?

Jonathan Walker on the Consequences of Christian Narrative

By Jonathan Walker | August 24, 2021

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