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Crystal Wilkinson on the Importance of Birthdays in the Black Community

Crystal Wilkinson on the Importance of Birthdays in the Black Community

“Let us celebrate. Not in a way that is meant to milk our pocketbooks in the name of consumerism and capitalism, but with love.”

By Crystal Wilkinson | January 24, 2024

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Meet the 2024 United States Artists Writing Fellows.

Meet the 2024 United States Artists Writing Fellows.

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Fire, Earth, Spring: Unity and Resistance in the Lands of SWANA

Fire, Earth, Spring: Unity and Resistance in the Lands of SWANA

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By Sahar Delijani | January 23, 2024

How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

Lee Gutkind on the Early Origins of a Very American Kind of Writing

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Manjula Martin on Chronicling a World in Constant Turmoil

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Unlocking Reason: How the Deaf Created Their Own System of Communication

Unlocking Reason: How the Deaf Created Their Own System of Communication

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The Cult of the Hustle: Why We All Want to Become Our Own Boss

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Benjamin C. Waterhouse on the Economic and Political Factors Behind the Current Gig Economy

By Benjamin C. Waterhouse | January 22, 2024

Inspiration Plus Experimentation: On the Essential Elements of Artistic Creation

Inspiration Plus Experimentation: On the Essential Elements of Artistic Creation

Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards Consider the Creative Process Behind Music Composition

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Why Are We Here? On the Philosophical Possibilities of “Cosmic Purpose”

Why Are We Here? On the Philosophical Possibilities of “Cosmic Purpose”

Philip Pullman, Philip Goff, and Nigel Warburton Ponder the Big Questions of Our Existence

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Nick Romeo on the Profound—and Scary—Influence of Economic Ideas

Nick Romeo on the Profound—and Scary—Influence of Economic Ideas

“It’s hard to imagine a group of businessmen aggressively lobbying against the physics curriculum at MIT.”

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Why is March 2024 the Best Month in Years For Books?

Why is March 2024 the Best Month in Years For Books?

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