Here’s the shortlist for the 2024 Cundill History Prize.

Here’s the shortlist for the 2024 Cundill History Prize.

By Literary Hub | September 5, 2024

Spammy political fundraising texts from fictional characters.

Spammy political fundraising texts from fictional characters.

By James Folta | September 4, 2024

On the weird literary origins of <em>Beetlejuice</em> (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice...).

On the weird literary origins of Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice...).

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Don’t Look Back: Diary of a Life in Gaza

Don’t Look Back: Diary of a Life in Gaza

Nahil Mohana on the Toll of Living with Endless Displacement and Fear

By Nahil Mohana | September 4, 2024

Nothing’s Ever Lost: Can AI Help Us Remember Our Departed Loved Ones?

Nothing’s Ever Lost: Can AI Help Us Remember Our Departed Loved Ones?

Bryan VanDyke on Grief, Chatbots and the Power of Human Memory

By Bryan VanDyke | September 4, 2024

Poetic Prankster: On Rudyard Kipling’s Boundary-Blurring Satire of Bureaucracy

Poetic Prankster: On Rudyard Kipling’s Boundary-Blurring Satire of Bureaucracy

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay Explores the Anglo-Indian Author’s “Departmental Ditties”

By Priyasha Mukhopadhyay | September 4, 2024

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