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    The Cosmic Library on Stories and Sleep

    This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman

     
    By The Cosmic Library   May 22, 2024
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    Justin Taylor on Weird Fiction

    By The Cosmic Library   May 8, 2024
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    The Cosmic Library Reads Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Wakefield”

    By The Cosmic Library   May 1, 2024
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    Deborah Treisman on the Challenge of Identifying the American Short Story

    By The Cosmic Library   April 24, 2024
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    Welcome to Season 5 of The Cosmic Library

    By The Cosmic Library   April 4, 2024
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    On Journey to the West’s Capacity for Reinvention Across Centuries

    By The Cosmic Library   July 6, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
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    Cinematic Transcendence: On Legendary Quests and Wuxia Cinema

    By The Cosmic Library   June 27, 2023
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    Spiritual Clarity and Satirical Play: On the Monkey King as Allegory

    By The Cosmic Library   June 21, 2023
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    On the Lawful Chaos of Journey to the West

    By The Cosmic Library   June 13, 2023
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    The Cosmic Library on Short Story Institutions

    This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman

    By The Cosmic Library   May 15, 2024
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    Welcome to Season 4 of The Cosmic Library

    By The Cosmic Library   May 30, 2023
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    The Unpronounceable Name of God: Concluding a Journey Through the Hebrew Bible

    By The Cosmic Library   May 10, 2022
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    Struggling with Disaster—and Language—in the Hebrew Bible

    By The Cosmic Library   May 3, 2022
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    On Sigmund Freud and the “Dream Space” of the Hebrew Bible

    From Season 3 of The Cosmic Library Podcast

    By The Cosmic Library   April 26, 2022
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    Rules, Rituals, and Laws of Emotion in the Hebrew Bible

    By The Cosmic Library   April 19, 2022
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    How the Hebrew Bible Poses Fundamental Questions About Language

    By The Cosmic Library   April 12, 2022
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    Welcome to Season 3 of The Cosmic Library

    By The Cosmic Library   April 6, 2022
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    How Stories Can Transcend Author, Culture, and History

    Part Five of “The Worlds of Scheherazade”

    By The Cosmic Library   December 7, 2021
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    Why Do Some Stories Survive the Test of Time?

    By The Cosmic Library   November 30, 2021
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    Formulaic Surprises: How 1,001 Nights Startles with Sameness

    By The Cosmic Library   November 23, 2021
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    Jim Al-Khalili on the Science of 1,001 Nights

    By The Cosmic Library   November 16, 2021
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    How 1,001 Nights Opened Paths to Infinite Story Possibility

    Introducing a New Five-Part Series from The Cosmic Library

    By The Cosmic Library   November 9, 2021
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    Reading Finnegans Wake Musically Might Help Make Sense of It

    By The Cosmic Library   April 29, 2021
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    Katherine O’Callaghan on the Irish Contexts for Mythical Figure Finn MacCool

    By The Cosmic Library   April 22, 2021
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    An Introduction to Journey to the West, the 16th-Century Chinese Novel of Comic Mischief and Spirituality

    By The Cosmic Library   June 6, 2023
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