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Renaissance of the Weird: Experimental Fiction as the New American Normal

Renaissance of the Weird: Experimental Fiction as the New American Normal

John Domini on Amber Sparks, Percival Everett, Laura van den Berg, Lance Olsen, Paul Beatty, Karen Russell, and More

By John Domini | July 25, 2022

Anna Badkhen Finds Space for Hope and Sanctuary Amidst Histories of Imperial Collapse

Anna Badkhen Finds Space for Hope and Sanctuary Amidst Histories of Imperial Collapse

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | July 25, 2022

The Story of Two Lost Fountain Pens

The Story of Two Lost Fountain Pens

Nina Katchadourian on the Agony of Loss and a Moment of Reconnection

By Nina Katchadourian | July 25, 2022

Where’s the Respect for Ani DiFranco?

Where’s the Respect for Ani DiFranco?

Elisa Albert Pays Tribute to the Folksinger, Renegade, Music Industry Outlier, and Activist

By Elisa Albert | July 25, 2022

How Wasps Are Less Bothersome—And More Beautiful—Than We Think

How Wasps Are Less Bothersome—And More Beautiful—Than We Think

Seirian Sumner on the Science Behind Wasp Stings

By Seirian Sumner | July 25, 2022

Return to San Sebastian: Novel Research As Road Trip in Puerto Rico

Return to San Sebastian: Novel Research As Road Trip in Puerto Rico

Life Imitates Art as Leah Franqui Travels Home With Her Father

By Leah Franqui | July 25, 2022

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“Josh Hawley is a bitch.” And other poetic mockeries of a cowardly senator.

By Jonny Diamond | July 22, 2022

Nope is a Masterclass on Our Relationship to Entertainment

By Olivia Rutigliano | July 22, 2022

Listen to an 8-minute song inspired by the work of Marilynne Robinson.

By Emily Temple | July 22, 2022

Actually, Killing a Dog Was More Than Enough to Justify John Wick’s Revenge Quest

Actually, Killing a Dog Was More Than Enough to Justify John Wick’s Revenge Quest

“We love the dog, and every motherfucker who killed the dog should die.”

By Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman | July 22, 2022

Reckoning with the Memory of Jonas Mekas, Godfather of Avant-Garde Cinema

Reckoning with the Memory of Jonas Mekas, Godfather of Avant-Garde Cinema

“I saw no reason to doubt Mekas’s story: hadn’t he written it all down in his diaries and told it in his films?”

By Peter Delpeut | July 22, 2022

How Unjust Drug Policy and Systemic Racism Created a Class of Innocent Felons

How Unjust Drug Policy and Systemic Racism Created a Class of Innocent Felons

Jen Maxfield on Christopher Clemente, the Falsely Accused and Framed "Ivy League Crack Dealer"

By Jen Maxfield | July 22, 2022

We're getting a new book by Michelle Obama this fall.

We're getting a new book by Michelle Obama this fall.

By Corinne Segal | July 21, 2022

The Politics of Craft: Charles Baxter on How His Essays on Writing Respond to a Changing World

The Politics of Craft: Charles Baxter on How His Essays on Writing Respond to a Changing World

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 21, 2022

Paul Hollywood: How To Make the Ultimate Focaccia

Paul Hollywood: How To Make the Ultimate Focaccia

Or: How to Make Friends at a Dinner Party

By Paul Hollywood | July 21, 2022

A Love Letter to (Perpetually Underfunded, Gloriously Democratic) Public Libraries

A Love Letter to (Perpetually Underfunded, Gloriously Democratic) Public Libraries

Michele Herman: “Libraries so clearly help to make good citizens, are so clearly a municipal force for the common good.”

By Michele Herman | July 21, 2022

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