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What’s Next For Nation-States? On the Past, Present and Future of the World As We Know It

What’s Next For Nation-States? On the Past, Present and Future of the World As We Know It

Rana Dasgupta Considers Old and New Possibilities For the Organization of Geopolitical Power

By Rana Dasgupta | May 18, 2026

Navigating the Coming-of-Illness Narrative

Navigating the Coming-of-Illness Narrative

“We need these stories, because they reveal a potent truth: no one is immune to illness and death.”

By Lorraine Boissoneault | May 18, 2026

Alice and Me: How My Struggle With Cancer Mirrored My Protagonist’s

Alice and Me: How My Struggle With Cancer Mirrored My Protagonist’s

Caitlin Shetterly on Grappling With the Uncanny Parallels Between Real Life and Fiction

By Caitlin Shetterly | May 18, 2026

Who Are You Stacey Levine? What Happens When a “Deeply Weird,” (Very) Small Press Novel is a Pulitzer Finalist

Who Are You Stacey Levine? What Happens When a “Deeply Weird,” (Very) Small Press Novel is a Pulitzer Finalist

Max Pearl Gets to Know the Author of Mice 1961

By Max Pearl | May 15, 2026

Who to Blame For the Rise of the Yuppie? Investment Banks, Obviously

Who to Blame For the Rise of the Yuppie? Investment Banks, Obviously

Dylan Gottlieb on How Financialization Remade Corporate America and Wall Street

By Dylan Gottlieb | May 15, 2026

On the Road to Canterbury Reading Dan Simmons Sci-Fi Adaptation of Chaucer’s Classic

On the Road to Canterbury Reading Dan Simmons Sci-Fi Adaptation of Chaucer’s Classic

Adrian McKinty Searches For Fellow Pilgrims, a Copy of Hyperion in His Pack

By Adrian McKinty | May 15, 2026

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Chet’la Sebree on How Chronic Illness Forever Altered Her Literary Life

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When a Californian Moves to Montana and Gets Pushback From the Locals

By Cassidy Gard | May 15, 2026

American poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney has won the 2026 Dylan Thomas Prize.

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Alan Mikhail on the Early Origins of the American Family Who Settled in What We Now Know as New York

By Alan Mikhail | May 14, 2026

Hollywood Needs to Stop Hot-Washing Literary Adaptations

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Maris Kreizman on Wuthering Heights, Scarpetta, Vladimir, and an Epidemic of Beautiful People in the Wrong Roles

By Maris Kreizman | May 14, 2026

Lessons in Living in the Anthropocene (From the World’s Most Pessimistic Climate Writer)

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Daegan Miller on the Often Misunderstood Work of Roy Scranton

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To Tell A Story: On Blending Family History and Lived Experience in Nonfiction

To Tell A Story: On Blending Family History and Lived Experience in Nonfiction

Tamiko Nimura Recounts the Process of Crafting Her Memoir, From Idea to Execution

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From My Hometown to Vietnam, Searching For My Biological Father

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