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    You can call the Booker Prize trophy ‘Iris.’

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    “Suicidal Thinking is Just Another Kind of Addictive Thinking.” Clancy Martin on Healing Addiction and Suicidal Ideation

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    The Literature of QAnon: From 4chan to January 6, Will Sommer on Reading the Authors of Conspiracy Theories

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    How did reactionary French novelist Michel Houellebecq end up in a Dutch arthouse porn?

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    On Poetry

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    How Smell—the Most Underrated Sense—Was Overpowered By Our Other Senses

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    Behind the Book Cover

    “Something Beyond Flatness On Paper.” On Creating the Cover For Carlo Rovelli’s Newest Book

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    Children's Lit

    On the Role of Children’s Books Within the Realm of Social Evolution

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    Chris Chalk will play James Baldwin in Capote’s Women.

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    Arinze Ifeakandu has won the 2022 Republic of Consciousness prize.

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