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What the Stoics Understood About Death (And Can Teach Us)

What the Stoics Understood About Death (And Can Teach Us)

David Fideler on What Awareness of Mortality Does to a Life

By David Fideler | December 16, 2021

“Garbo Talks!” On the 1930 Sound Film That Gave Greta a Voice

“Garbo Talks!” On the 1930 Sound Film That Gave Greta a Voice

Robert Gottlieb Describes the World’s Reaction to That “Husky, Throaty Contralto”

By Robert Gottlieb | December 15, 2021

Excavating the Insights of a Once Beloved Greek Novelist

Excavating the Insights of a Once Beloved Greek Novelist

Johanna Hanink on Andreas Karkavitsas and His Novel, The Archaelogist

By Johanna Hanink | December 15, 2021

Reminder: the most famous short story in American literature was written in one day.

Reminder: the most famous short story in American literature was written in one day.

By Walker Caplan | December 14, 2021

<em>The Red Badge of Courage</em> now has a sequel in which Henry Fleming becomes mayor.

The Red Badge of Courage now has a sequel in which Henry Fleming becomes mayor.

By Walker Caplan | December 13, 2021

On Melville, Mendacity, and Letting the Unknowable Find Its Way in Your Writing

On Melville, Mendacity, and Letting the Unknowable Find Its Way in Your Writing

David Kirby Plumbs the Uncertain Depths of Art and Truth

By David Kirby | December 10, 2021

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In Which a Direct Line is Drawn From Flaubert’s Unfinished Novel to Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

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“How Did We Get Stuck?” David Wengrow on Imagining Alternatives To Our Current Systems

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AudioFile’s 2021 Best Audiobooks: An Interview with Louis Ozawa

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Ian Toll on the Lead Up to the Pearl Harbor Attack

Ian Toll on the Lead Up to the Pearl Harbor Attack

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By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | December 9, 2021

Remember the time Mario Vargas Llosa punched Gabriel García Márquez?

Remember the time Mario Vargas Llosa punched Gabriel García Márquez?

By Walker Caplan | December 8, 2021

Trying to Write About “The Two John Miltons”

Trying to Write About “The Two John Miltons”

Joe Moshenska on the Complicated Lives the Scholar-Poet-Prophet

By Joe Moshenska | December 8, 2021

On the Birth of the Art Instinct

On the Birth of the Art Instinct

John-Paul Stonard Finds Recurring Themes in the First Cave Drawings

By John-Paul Stonard | December 8, 2021

The Hidden Agency of Women in Medieval Stories, from <em>Beowulf</em> to Guthlac’s <em>Life</em>

The Hidden Agency of Women in Medieval Stories, from Beowulf to Guthlac’s Life

Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry on the Literature of Europe’s Bright Ages

By Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry | December 8, 2021

The Dangerous, Dirty Job of Oil Extraction: On the History of Offshore Exploration

The Dangerous, Dirty Job of Oil Extraction: On the History of Offshore Exploration

Tabitha Lasley Revisits the Disasters of Deepwater Horizon and Piper Alpha

By Tabitha Lasley | December 8, 2021

The Scapegoat: Siri Hustvedt on the Torture and Murder of Sylvia Likens

The Scapegoat: Siri Hustvedt on the Torture and Murder of Sylvia Likens

“Every myth explains too much, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t truths to be found in the story.”

By Siri Hustvedt | December 7, 2021

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