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A Cult Can Be You and Your Weird Charismatic Friend

A Cult Can Be You and Your Weird Charismatic Friend

How Cult Logic Appears in Businesses, Families, Political Movements, Friendships

By Molly Dektar | April 17, 2019

<em>Reading Women</em> Talk Laila Lalami<br> and Tahereh Mafi

Reading Women Talk Laila Lalami
and Tahereh Mafi

Ramadan Reading Part 2, with Kendra Winchester and Sumaiyya Naseem

By Reading Women | April 17, 2019

What Are We Saying When We Call<br> an Algorithm 'Creative'?

What Are We Saying When We Call
an Algorithm 'Creative'?

Locating Randomness and Agency in The Code

By Marcus du Sautoy | April 17, 2019

Ahead of Their Time: A Reading List of Nonconformist Women

Ahead of Their Time: A Reading List of Nonconformist Women

From Sylvia Townsend Warner to Annie Proulx

By Lissa Evans | April 17, 2019

Lori Gottlieb on Experiencing<br> Therapy as a Therapist

Lori Gottlieb on Experiencing
Therapy as a Therapist

Lori Gottlieb in Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | April 17, 2019

Where Suspicion Meets Reality: How Conspiracy Enters the American Mainstream

Where Suspicion Meets Reality: How Conspiracy Enters the American Mainstream

Irradiated Milk, Mind Control, Demonic Minions and Other Oddities

By Anna Merlan | April 16, 2019

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By Lit Hub Daily | April 16, 2019

How to Raise a Strapping, Manly Little Boy (Victorian Edition)

By Therese Oneill | April 16, 2019

Heike Geissler's Grim Account of
the Amazon Workplace

By Monika Zaleska | April 16, 2019

Lauren Wilkinson on Writing <br>the Family Life of a Spy

Lauren Wilkinson on Writing
the Family Life of a Spy

With Christopher Hermelin and Drew Broussard on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | April 16, 2019

Cecelia Ahern on How She Writes<br> a Novel a Year

Cecelia Ahern on How She Writes
a Novel a Year

The Author of ROAR on Finding Creativity in Structure

By Cecelia Ahern | April 16, 2019

Historical Fiction Can Be As<br> Urgent As the News

Historical Fiction Can Be As
Urgent As the News

Joshua Furst: History Doesn't Need to be Boring

By Joshua Furst | April 16, 2019

The Forgotten Massacre of Chinese Immigrants During<br> the Mexican Revolution

The Forgotten Massacre of Chinese Immigrants During
the Mexican Revolution

Julián Herbert Chronicles an Unsung Outrage

By Julián Herbert | April 16, 2019

Literary Disco on the Enduring Genius of Jane Austen

Literary Disco on the Enduring Genius of Jane Austen

Julia, Tod, and Rider Talk Sense and Sensibility

By Literary Disco | April 16, 2019

On the Decision to Make Patrick Bateman a Serial Killer

On the Decision to Make Patrick Bateman a Serial Killer

Life in Manhattan, c. 1987: From Bret Easton Ellis's White

By Bret Easton Ellis | April 16, 2019

A Poem from Forrest Gander's <em>Be With</em>, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

A Poem from Forrest Gander's Be With, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

'And into / what do you stumble / but this violet / extinction?'

By Forrest Gander | April 15, 2019

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