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    Medieval History

    Faith, Power, and Survival: What Ruled Life in Early-Medieval England

    By David Mitchell  October 11, 2023
    Insomnia

    Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

    By Rebecca Clarren  October 11, 2023
    Horror

    How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

    By Alexandra Dos Santos  October 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Andy Mitchell on the Future of Psychedelics

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    The Hub

    Read a 1957 review of Ayn Rand’s “excruciatingly awful” Atlas Shrugged.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 10, 2023
    Language

    No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of “Ye Olde” in English

    By Hana Videen  October 10, 2023
    Keen On

    Isle McElroy on How It Might Feel to Live in the Wrong Body

    By Keen On  October 10, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    A Short Story from Masatsugu Ono and Emergence Magazine

    By Emergence Magazine  October 10, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson

    By Patrick Weil  October 9, 2023
    Youth

    McKenzie Wark Writes a Letter to Her Younger Self

    By McKenzie Wark  October 9, 2023
    In Conversation

    Black Girl Group Magic: The Marvelettes on How They Became Motown Music Legends

    By Literary Hub  October 9, 2023
    The Hub

    bell hooks and Maxine Hong Kingston were among the winners at the American Book Awards.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 6, 2023
    In Conversation

    In Praise of Mariah Carey

    By Literary Hub  October 6, 2023
    Terrorism

    What A Long History of Terror Tells Us About Modern France

    By Nabila Ramdani  October 6, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    How Recycled American Batteries Pollute Communities Around the World

    By James Morton Turner  October 6, 2023
    What to Watch

    Liberatory Art: What Passages Achieves in the History of Cinema and Desire

    By Frank Falisi  October 6, 2023
    What to Watch

    Iain Reid on Seeing Foe Come to Life on Screen

    By Iain Reid  October 6, 2023
    The Hub

    Norwegian writer Jon Fosse has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature.

    By Emily Temple  October 5, 2023
    Loneliness

    Understanding Zora Neale Hurston’s Loneliness

    By Richard Deming  October 5, 2023
    Creativity

    A Crisis of Faith: Pauls Toutonghi on Finding Purpose in Creativity

    By Pauls Toutonghi  October 5, 2023
    Craft

    Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

    By Anne Eekhout  October 5, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    The (Not So) Lost Buddhisms of India

    By Douglas Ober  October 5, 2023
    The Hub

    These three writers just won MacArthur “genius” grants.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 4, 2023
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