“A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

“A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

Ash Davidson on Now in November

By Ash Davidson | July 19, 2022

How Literature Influenced Adolescent Ideas About Love in the 18th Century

How Literature Influenced Adolescent Ideas About Love in the 18th Century

John Wood Sweet on Sex, Love and Rape Culture in Early America

By John Wood Sweet | July 19, 2022

Bad Seeds and Mad Scientists: On the Build-A-Humans of 19th-Century Literature

Bad Seeds and Mad Scientists: On the Build-A-Humans of 19th-Century Literature

Silvia Moreno-Garcia on Her Fascination With Creation Gone Awry

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia | July 19, 2022

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Finding Kinship with Eve Babitz and Joan Didion

By Liska Jacobs | July 19, 2022

How Trying to Find a Cure For Scurvy Led to the Gimlet

How Trying to Find a Cure For Scurvy Led to the Gimlet

On Limey and Limes on British Royal Navy ships

By Camper English | July 19, 2022

Rebecca Giggs Explains How Very Small Beings Are Often Responsible For Vast Surges of Life

Rebecca Giggs Explains How Very Small Beings Are Often Responsible For Vast Surges of Life

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | July 19, 2022

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My Journey to Writing Children’s Books Began with a Colicky Baby

By Christina Geist | July 19, 2022

The comic strip that every artist needs to read.

By Emily Temple | July 18, 2022

Searching For a Lost Medieval City Somewhere in Wales

By Matthew Green | July 18, 2022

More Than Just Power and Oppression: Six Books About Patriarchs

More Than Just Power and Oppression: Six Books About Patriarchs

Taymour Soomro on Stories of Resistance, Loneliness, and Inheritance.

By Taymour Soomro | July 18, 2022

The Republican Party Now Backs an Anti-Democratic Insurgency

The Republican Party Now Backs an Anti-Democratic Insurgency

Malcolm Nance on the Trump Insurgents and the Conspiracy Thinking of Their MAGA-Hat-Colored World

By Malcolm Nance | July 18, 2022

The Common Sense of Magic Realism and Why <em>The Mermaid of Black Conch</em> is a “Caribbean Novel”

The Common Sense of Magic Realism and Why The Mermaid of Black Conch is a “Caribbean Novel”

Monique Roffey in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | July 18, 2022

Work Matters: How Parents’ Jobs Shape Children’s Well-Being

Work Matters: How Parents’ Jobs Shape Children’s Well-Being

Maureen Perry-Jenkins in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | July 18, 2022

Do We Need a Science Party to Confront Existential Problems Like Global Warming?

Do We Need a Science Party to Confront Existential Problems Like Global Warming?

Salem H. Ali in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | July 18, 2022

"There's no invention in the void." Read a letter from J.R.R. Tolkien on the origins of Middle-earth.

By Emily Temple | July 15, 2022

From <em>Fleabag</em> to <em>Persuasion</em>, the Rise of the Mussy-Haired, Self-Hating Sarcasm Machine

From Fleabag to Persuasion, the Rise of the Mussy-Haired, Self-Hating Sarcasm Machine

Emmeline Clein on “Dissociation Feminism” and the Cold Embrace of Irony

By Emmeline Clein | July 15, 2022

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