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From K-Pop to a Bach Cantata: How the Brain Recognizes Music

From K-Pop to a Bach Cantata: How the Brain Recognizes Music

Michael Spitzer Looks at the Universality of Rhythm and Melody

By Michael Spitzer | April 15, 2021

Inside the Secret Facility Where the USSR’s First Cosmonauts Trained

Inside the Secret Facility Where the USSR’s First Cosmonauts Trained

Stephen Walker on the Vanguard Six

By Stephen Walker | April 15, 2021

Announcing the winners of the 2021 Whiting Awards.

Announcing the winners of the 2021 Whiting Awards.

By Emily Temple | April 14, 2021

Gawker is coming back.

Gawker is coming back.

By Walker Caplan | April 14, 2021

Hanya Yanagihara's next novel, <em> To Paradise</em>, is coming in January.

Hanya Yanagihara's next novel, To Paradise, is coming in January.

By Walker Caplan | April 14, 2021

Check out these trippy new covers for eight modern classics.

Check out these trippy new covers for eight modern classics.

By Emily Temple | April 14, 2021

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A scammer just stole £30k of literary prize money—and is trying to steal more.

By Walker Caplan | April 14, 2021

How Invisible Man paved the way for Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly.

By Vanessa Willoughby | April 14, 2021

This 1980 George Plimpton TV commercial for video games is a masterpiece.

By Jonny Diamond | April 14, 2021

On the Literature of Rewilding… and the Need to Rewild Literature

On the Literature of Rewilding… and the Need to Rewild Literature

Phoebe Hamilton-Jones Finds Non-Human Perspectives in Max Porter, Sarah Hall, Daisy Johnson, and More

By Phoebe Hamilton Jones | April 14, 2021

Bollywood or Bust: Salman Rushdie on the World of <em>Midnight’s Children</em>, <br>Forty Years Later

Bollywood or Bust: Salman Rushdie on the World of Midnight’s Children,
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“I wanted to write a novel of vaulting ambition, a high-wire act with no safety net, an all-or-nothing effort.”

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Why is Maintaining Adult Friendships So Difficult?

Why is Maintaining Adult Friendships So Difficult?

Kristin van Ogtrop on the Ones That Get Away

By Kristin van Ogtrop | April 14, 2021

Finding Hemingway: Seeing the Self Behind the Self-Mythologizer

Finding Hemingway: Seeing the Self Behind the Self-Mythologizer

Alex Thomas on Lynn Novick and Ken Burns’s New Documentary

By Alex Thomas | April 14, 2021

Is Social Media Really Polarizing Us? Or Is it Just... Us?

Is Social Media Really Polarizing Us? Or Is it Just... Us?

Chris Bail in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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Natalie Portman is your new Ferrante heroine.

Natalie Portman is your new Ferrante heroine.

By Dan Sheehan | April 13, 2021

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