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Why Is a Raven Like a Writing-Desk? On the Uses and Limitations of Mathematical Models

Erica Thompson Considers the Metaphors of the Numerical World

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Secrets and Sickness: When a Medical Emergency Reveals a Wife’s Long-Hidden History of Cancer

Secrets and Sickness: When a Medical Emergency Reveals a Wife’s Long-Hidden History of Cancer

Barrett Rollins on a Terrifying Emergency and a Shocking Revelation

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What Happens When a Novelist “Overparents” Their Characters? How to Avoid Helicopter Authoring

What Happens When a Novelist “Overparents” Their Characters? How to Avoid Helicopter Authoring

Allegra Goodman in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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Why All Writers, Especially Novelists, Are Political: Which is Why Novels Can Change the World

Why All Writers, Especially Novelists, Are Political: Which is Why Novels Can Change the World

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 9, 2022

Shame, Silence, and Family Secrets: How Enduring Antisemitism Created False Identities

Shame, Silence, and Family Secrets: How Enduring Antisemitism Created False Identities

Margaret K. Nelson on Concealing and Unearthing Hidden Jewish Heritage

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Why, in Our Age of Permanent Volatility, We Need to Foster a Zen-Like “Deliberate Calm”

Why, in Our Age of Permanent Volatility, We Need to Foster a Zen-Like “Deliberate Calm”

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Part Bear, Part Bird, Part Monkey, Part Lizard: On the Deep Weirdness of Beavers

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Erika T. Wurth on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Intergenerational Trauma, and Heavy Metal

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In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

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