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    Horror

    Do Motives Matter When It Comes to Movie Horror?

    By Tyler Malone  October 29, 2021
    Wilderness

    Reconsidering Thoreau in a Burning World

    By Megan Marshall  October 29, 2021
    Taboo

    Ghostly Taboos: Superstitious Rules and Gendered Restrictions

    By Aimee Parkison  October 29, 2021
    Poetry

    “Poem”

    By Louise Gluck  October 29, 2021
    Poetry

    “The Way the Tides”

    By Rickey Laurentiis  October 29, 2021
    Mental health

    What Therapists Are Reading to Get Through the Many Crises of the Moment

    By Chaya Bhuvaneswar  October 29, 2021
    Open Source

    “Nature’s Own Repair Kit.” On the CRISPR Challenge

    By Open Source  October 29, 2021
    Keen On

    Jonathan Reisman on the Secrets of the Human Body

    By Keen On  October 29, 2021
    Keen On

    Ian Rosenberg on Understanding Contemporary Free Speech Issues in America

    By Keen On  October 29, 2021
    FUSE

    David Byrne and Open Mike Eagle on Sampling, Anime, and Gatekeeping in the Music Industry

    By FUSE: A BOMB Podcast   October 29, 2021
    Writing

    How the Everyday Becomes Mythic Through Fiction

    By Andrew Siegrist  October 29, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Victoria Chang on the Real Questions that Power Stories

    By Victoria Chang  October 29, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are the 2021 Kirkus Prize winners.

    By Emily Temple  October 28, 2021
    The Hub

    Prince Charles has weighed in on the Brontë manuscripts controversy.

    By Walker Caplan  October 28, 2021
    The Hub

    Read Sylvia Plath’s first published poem, which she wrote at age 8.

    By Walker Caplan  October 28, 2021
    The Hub

    Jesse Eisenberg, Jumaane Williams, and more will perform Oedipus Trilogy online.

    By Walker Caplan  October 28, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are five Filipino American authors you should read.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  October 28, 2021
    The Hub

    Elizabeth Banks and Margot Robbie are making a live-action The Paper Bag Princess movie.

    By Walker Caplan  October 28, 2021
    Misinformation

    The Call is Coming From Inside the House: On Fighting Disinformation

    By Nina Jankowicz  October 28, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    Novels and the News: Amitava Kumar with Robert Boynton, Francine Prose, and Parul Sehgal

    By The Virtual Book Channel  October 28, 2021
    Biography

    Breaking Through the Self-Mythologizing of the Male Artist as a Woman Biographer

    By Gabrielle Selz  October 28, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    Here are October’s Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books

    By Book Marks  October 28, 2021
    Keen On

    Pamela Paul on What We’ve Lost to the Internet

    By Keen On  October 28, 2021
    Baseball

    Why is Baseball the Most Literary of Sports?

    By Lincoln Michel  October 28, 2021
    Abolition

    How the Potter Josiah Wedgwood Created an Iconic Abolitionist Medallion

    By Tristram Hunt  October 28, 2021
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