The “outstandingly original scholar” Lyndal Roper has won the 2026 Holberg Prize.

The “outstandingly original scholar” Lyndal Roper has won the 2026 Holberg Prize.

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Love Stories, Feminism, and Why Cemeteries Are Sexy

Love Stories, Feminism, and Why Cemeteries Are Sexy

Jessica Ferri on Ann Rower’s Lee and Elaine

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What Playing Basketball Taught Me About the Creative Process

What Playing Basketball Taught Me About the Creative Process

Ben Markovits on the Lessons He Learned About Writing From Sports

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What Keeps Us Human: How My Palestinian Father Met My Jewish Mother

What Keeps Us Human: How My Palestinian Father Met My Jewish Mother

Hannah Lillith Assadi on Overcoming Impossible Barriers to Love

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What Wayne Koestenbaum Learned From <em>Gilligan’s Island</em> (And Why He Will Never Finish Reading Marx’s <em>Capital</em>)

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Seven books that expand the conversation around ambivalent parenthood.

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Scott Kurashige on the Rise of Asian Hate and Violence

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Is This the Most Literary Video Game of All Time?

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What <em>Night of the Living Dead</em> Taught Me About Filmmaking—and Life

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Benjamin Franklin Was One of Many Early Americans Who Spread Genocidal Propaganda About Indigenous Nations

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