Lessons Learned from a Year Listening to the Fictional Octopus in My Head

Lessons Learned from a Year Listening to the Fictional Octopus in My Head

Shelby Van Pelt on an Unlikely Friend and Saying What You Mean

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Struggling with Disaster—and Language—in the Hebrew Bible

Struggling with Disaster—and Language—in the Hebrew Bible

From Season 3 of The Cosmic Library Podcast

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How the Small Moments That Haunt Us Can Form the Seeds of a Novel

How the Small Moments That Haunt Us Can Form the Seeds of a Novel

Steve Almond on Writing as a Means of Dealing With Obsession

By Steve Almond | May 3, 2022

How Hawks Teach Us a Different Way to Love

How Hawks Teach Us a Different Way to Love

Sy Montgomery in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 3, 2022

How “My Old Kentucky Home” Is a Sonic Monument to a Segregated America

How “My Old Kentucky Home” Is a Sonic Monument to a Segregated America

Emily Bingham in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 3, 2022

The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in May

The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in May

From True Crime to Giant Snakes, Something for Everyone

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Searching for a Lost History in Modern-Day Russia

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A Quiet Reply to a Life Cut Short: After a Profound Loss, How to Honor the Dead

A Quiet Reply to a Life Cut Short: After a Profound Loss, How to Honor the Dead

Elisha Cooper on Coming to Terms with What Killed His Brother

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What Animals Can Show Us About More Meaningfully Encountering the Wider World

What Animals Can Show Us About More Meaningfully Encountering the Wider World

Sy Montgomery on the Lessons of the Natural World

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Love is Space: Notes on Marriage and Creativity

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Andrea Bajani on Writing, Solitude, and Forgiveness

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Robin Wall Kimmerer on What Mosses Can Teach Us About Persisting Amid Climate Change

Robin Wall Kimmerer on What Mosses Can Teach Us About Persisting Amid Climate Change

Taking the Long View of Earth on Emergence Magazine

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How Sissieretta Jones, Celebrated Black Opera Singer, Enshrined Her Own Story

How Sissieretta Jones, Celebrated Black Opera Singer, Enshrined Her Own Story

Rosalyn Story on Discovering Jones' Personal Scrapbook

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NFT poetry is definitely a thing coming to a blockchain near you.

NFT poetry is definitely a thing coming to a blockchain near you.

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