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    The Internet

    How the Internet Turned “Florida Man” Into a Figure of Indulgence, Decadence, and Bad Decision Making

    By Tyler Gillespie  April 19, 2021
    Astrophysics

    Rediscovering the Scientist-Priest Who Radically Changed Our View of the Universe

    By Guido Tonelli  April 19, 2021
    Sun Valley Writers' Conference

    Francis Lam’s Food For Thought

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  April 19, 2021
    Interview with a Journal

    Interview with a Journal: Kenyon Review

    By Vanessa Willoughby  April 19, 2021
    American History

    Secrets and Lies in the Early Days of the Klondike Gold Rush

    By Brian Castner  April 19, 2021
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, April 19th to April 25th

    By Rasheeda Saka  April 19, 2021
    Ukrainian Literature

    Love Ukraine as You Would the Sun: 10 Ukrainian Books Worth Reading in English

    By Kate Tsurkan  April 19, 2021
    Walking

    On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking

    By Jeremy DeSilva  April 19, 2021
    Reading Lists

    In Praise of the Graceless Literary Exit: A Reading List

    By KT Sparks  April 19, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    On the Meeting Place of Scientific Knowledge and Indigenous Ways of Knowing

    By Emergence Magazine  April 19, 2021
    Keen On

    Mustafa Akyol on the Islamic Enlightenment

    By Keen On  April 19, 2021
    The Hub

    Got £2.75 million to spare? Now you can buy Agatha Christie’s house.

    By Walker Caplan  April 16, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  April 16, 2021
    The Hub

    Watch Spalding Gray perform Our Town’s legendary opening monologue.

    By Walker Caplan  April 16, 2021
    The Hub

    The first wave of pandemic novels is beginning in earnest, with Gary Shteyngart at the helm.

    By Walker Caplan  April 16, 2021
    The Hub

    An ode to Paul Bettany’s mellifluous, magisterial turn as Chaucer in A Knight’s Tale.

    By Emily Temple  April 16, 2021
    Poets

    How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action

    By Mark Edmundson  April 16, 2021
    Queer Literature

    How Black Queer Readers and Writers Nourish the Future

    By Alexis Pauline Gumbs  April 16, 2021
    Journalism

    On the “Girl Stunt Reporters” Who Pioneered a New Genre of Investigative Journalism

    By Kim Todd  April 16, 2021
    Editors

    The Challenge of Editing a
    Beat Legend

    By Garrett Caples  April 16, 2021
    Palestine

    On Helping Tell a Palestinian Story as a White American Jew

    By Penina Eilberg-Schwartz  April 16, 2021
    Exploration

    Searching for Answers to Everest’s Greatest Mystery Among the Artifacts of Its Early Climbers

    By Mark Synnott  April 16, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Two Dollar Radio

    By Corinne Segal  April 16, 2021
    Interview

    What Have I Preserved: A Conversation with J. Nicole Jones

    By Hilary Leichter  April 16, 2021
    Keen On

    Nichole Perlroth on Our Digital Path to Mutually-Assured Destruction

    By Keen On  April 16, 2021
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