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    Check out the original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick.

    By Book Marks  October 18, 2021
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    A woman won a million-euro writing prize . . . then turned out to be three men.

    By Walker Caplan  October 18, 2021
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    How Ntozake Shange wrote her first poem in 7 years—after experiencing two strokes.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  October 18, 2021
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    Here are the five Gabriel García Márquez outfits I’d buy (if I had the money, and was smaller).

    By Jonny Diamond  October 18, 2021
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    Beloved Irish poet Brendan Kennelly has died at 85.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 18, 2021
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    Michael Caine is (maybe) retiring from acting . . . to be a writer!

    By Emily Temple  October 18, 2021
    Teaching Through a Pandemic

    How “Truth” Became a Controversial Subject in Classrooms

    By Molly Castner  October 18, 2021
    Inequality

    Who Are the 9.9 Percent? A Closer Look at the Math of American Inequality

    By Matthew Stewart  October 18, 2021
    Journalism

    Writing from Home: Lessons from a Novelist-Slash-Small-Town Newspaper Columnist

    By Nickolas Butler  October 18, 2021
    Colonialism

    Amitav Ghosh on the Lies of History and How the Natural World Fights Back

    By Ben Ehrenreich  October 18, 2021
    Keen On

    Mary Beard on What We Can Learn from Images of Roman Autocrats

    By Keen On  October 18, 2021
    The Writing Life

    How Do You Write About People Who Don’t Want To Be Written About?

    By Ethan Lou  October 18, 2021
    Teaching Through a Pandemic

    On Teaching at the End of the World

    By Rashaan Alexis Meneses  October 18, 2021
    Monsters

    “Its eyes were as large as a dinner plate…” Encounters with Dragons in Early America

    By Scott G. Bruce  October 18, 2021
    Neuroscience

    On the Historical Stigmatization and Persistent Vilification of Epilepsy in Literature

    By Louise Fein  October 18, 2021
    The Holocaust

    On Dr. Eduard Bloch, Hitler’s Family Physician (Who Happened to Be Jewish)

    By Meriel Schindler  October 18, 2021
    Theater

    Oedipus at the Bellevue Men’s Shelter: How Sophocles Speaks to Contemporary Trauma

    By Bryan Doerries  October 18, 2021
    Beauty

    On the Unattainable Myth of Feminine Beauty Ideals and Our Culture of Fat Phobia

    By Sesali Bowen  October 18, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    “Unknitting Despair.” Catherine Bush on Reciprocity, Care, and Ecological Loss

    By Emergence Magazine  October 18, 2021
    Keen On

    Jean Becker on George H.W. Bush’s Life After Presidency

    By Keen On  October 18, 2021
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    Read Ezra Pound’s extensive revisions to T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  October 15, 2021
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    Solange has launched a community library of rare books and art by Black creators.

    By Walker Caplan  October 15, 2021
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    “Dialogue reeketh, play stinketh.” The worst insults from reviews of The Iceman Cometh.

    By Walker Caplan  October 15, 2021
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    Here’s the shortlist for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.

    By Emily Temple  October 15, 2021
    Birds

    A Compendium of Literary Ravens

    By Angus Hyland and Caroline Roberts  October 15, 2021
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