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Oh no: the children’s word of the year is ... “anxiety.”

Oh no: the children’s word of the year is ... “anxiety.”

By Walker Caplan | January 18, 2022

Kingsley Amis’s Instructions for Coping with Hangovers, Both Physical and Metaphysical

Kingsley Amis’s Instructions for Coping with Hangovers, Both Physical and Metaphysical

Avoid at All Costs: Cigarettes, Cold Showers, and Evelyn Waugh

By Kingsley Amis | January 18, 2022

Mikhaila Peterson on Her Podcasting Journey

Mikhaila Peterson on Her Podcasting Journey

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | January 18, 2022

Paul Lisicky and Terese Marie Mailhot on the Long-Term Mental Health Effects of the Pandemic

Paul Lisicky and Terese Marie Mailhot on the Long-Term Mental Health Effects of the Pandemic

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 13, 2022

Edgar Gomez on Sex, Desire, and Going on PrEP

Edgar Gomez on Sex, Desire, and Going on PrEP

Also, Being Dubbed a "High-Risk Homosexual"

By Edgar Gomez | January 13, 2022

How Our Social Emotions Laid the Foundation for Functioning Societies

How Our Social Emotions Laid the Foundation for Functioning Societies

Leonard Mlodinow Considers the Purpose of Shame, Admiration, Jealousy and More

By Leonard Mlodinow | January 12, 2022

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On the Surprising Link Between Physical Strength and a Healthy Brain

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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

Why We Need New Vocabulary to Describe the Ending of the Grief That Comes After Loss

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Pauline Boss on Trauma and Why We Need to Rethink the Concept of Closure

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How My Passion Project Led to Burnout: On the Bittersweet Rewards of Creative Risks

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Leigh Stein Considers Life as a Working Writer and the Challenges of Forming an Alternative to AWP

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Why Black Women Teachers Should Cultivate and Protect Their Spirituality

Why Black Women Teachers Should Cultivate and Protect Their Spirituality

Cynthia B. Dillard on the Sacredness of Knowing, Memory, and Inheritance

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“Child, Failure, Old, Dead.” At What Age Are People Unhappiest?

“Child, Failure, Old, Dead.” At What Age Are People Unhappiest?

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The Very Real Correlation Between Bilingualism and Advanced Executive Function

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