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What the World’s Nightscapes Reveal About Our Dependence on Artificial Light

What the World’s Nightscapes Reveal About Our Dependence on Artificial Light

Sara B. Pritchard on the History and Future of Days and Nights Across the Globe

By Sara B. Pritchard | August 25, 2026

On the Rise of White Christian Nationalism in the US

On the Rise of White Christian Nationalism in the US

Jared Huffman Chronicles the Evolution of Right-Wing Christianity, From the Moral Majority to MAGA

By Jared Huffman | August 25, 2026

A Poem by Antonella Anedda

A Poem by Antonella Anedda

From the Collection Emerging from the Winter Sea

By Antonella Anedda | August 25, 2026

What Hieronymus Bosch’s Fantastical Triptychs Reveal About the Artist’s Worldview

What Hieronymus Bosch’s Fantastical Triptychs Reveal About the Artist’s Worldview

Catherine Daunt on the Judgemental Christian Morality Underpinning the Dutch Painter’s Work

By Catherine Daunt | August 25, 2026

Agnes Callard on Socrates’s Turf

Agnes Callard on Socrates’s Turf

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | August 25, 2026

Steven Thrasher on the Killing of Jason Arday

Steven Thrasher on the Killing of Jason Arday

“Jason was not just hounded out of academia, he was hounded out of existence.”

By Steven W. Thrasher | August 24, 2026

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Fiction as a Filter: On Writing the American West’s Water Crisis

By Claire Boyles | August 24, 2026

How Technology-Assisted Surveillance Promotes Racial Bias in Policing

By R. Joshua Scannell | August 24, 2026

Christelle Dabos on Empathy, Doing Good, and How We Fill Ourselves Up

By Christelle Dabos | August 24, 2026

Jeff Jarvis on Mark Twain, America’s First Celebrity Author and Publisher

Jeff Jarvis on Mark Twain, America’s First Celebrity Author and Publisher

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By Jeff Jarvis | August 21, 2026

A Literary Haunting: What the Ghost of Sylvia Plath Taught Me About Grief

A Literary Haunting: What the Ghost of Sylvia Plath Taught Me About Grief

“What haunts us doesn’t need to harm us, but can instead help guide us through what feels too difficult...”

By Abigail Rose-Marie | August 21, 2026

Television to the Rescue! Camille Acker on the Craft Potential of TV

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Ways of Connecting: On Writing That Marries the Psychological, the Personal and the Political

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Faraaz Mahomed Discusses His Debut Novel Mother/Land With Damon Galgut

By Faraaz Mahomed and Damon Galgut | August 21, 2026

In Praise of “Wordy, Old Prose.” (Or, F*ck Your AI Reading Buddy)

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By Maris Kreizman | August 20, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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