What Only Musicians and Translators Know

What Only Musicians and Translators Know

Jessica Sequeira on Transforming Emotion into Music and Words

By Jessica Sequeira | July 20, 2022

Bad Hollywood: A Reading List to Understand Harvey Weinstein’s Twisted World

Bad Hollywood: A Reading List to Understand Harvey Weinstein’s Twisted World

Ken Auletta Recommends Ronan Farrow, William Goldman, and More

By Ken Auletta | July 20, 2022

How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

Jamil Jan Kochai on Character Building, Storytelling, and Cloud Strife

By Jamil Jan Kochai | July 20, 2022

What Science Can Tell Us About How We Express Ourselves

What Science Can Tell Us About How We Express Ourselves

Batja Mesquita on the Way Language Shapes Emotion Across Cultures

By Batja Mesquita | July 20, 2022

Writing a Book About My Whiteness Forced Me to Confront My Own Lies

Writing a Book About My Whiteness Forced Me to Confront My Own Lies

Baynard Woods on the Infinite Gap Between Self-Conception and Material Reality

By Baynard Woods | July 20, 2022

Evergreen words to live by, from Alice Dunbar Nelson.

Evergreen words to live by, from Alice Dunbar Nelson.

By Katie Yee | July 19, 2022

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Read the short story that just won this year's Caine Prize for African Writing.

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Drool over the personal bookplates of 18 famous writers.

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Fandom as Methodology: On Fan-Nonfiction and Finding the Joy of Mutual Delusion

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Elvia Wilk Considers Fangirls, Possibility, and the Views from Many Somewheres

By Elvia Wilk | July 19, 2022

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

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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

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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

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