Remember when the Grateful Dead did a 12-minute freestyle based on “The Raven”?

Remember when the Grateful Dead did a 12-minute freestyle based on “The Raven”?

By Walker Caplan | October 25, 2021

Tessa Thompson is bringing Raven Leilani's <em>Luster</em> to HBO.

Tessa Thompson is bringing Raven Leilani's Luster to HBO.

By Dan Sheehan | October 25, 2021

A new study shows that UK school libraries are still very, very white.

A new study shows that UK school libraries are still very, very white.

By Walker Caplan | October 25, 2021

A close-reading of 5 music videos that take place in libraries.

A close-reading of 5 music videos that take place in libraries.

By Katie Yee | October 25, 2021

Unlearning the Sunk Cost Fallacy, in Writing and in Love

Unlearning the Sunk Cost Fallacy, in Writing and in Love

Hazel Hayes on the Power of Walking Away

By Hazel Hayes | October 25, 2021

Richard Powers on How Stories Can Help Us Cultivate Kinship with Other Creatures

Richard Powers on How Stories Can Help Us Cultivate Kinship with Other Creatures

This Week From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | October 25, 2021

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Jenny Holzer on a Life of Turning Public Spaces Into Art

By Hugo Huerta Marin | October 25, 2021

Charlotte Cushman: Radical Feminist, Actress, Patron of the Arts

By Tana Wojczuk | October 25, 2021

Battle Royale: 6 Books That Take on the Rich World of Wrestling

By Gene Kwak | October 25, 2021

Mapping Exile: A Writer’s Story of Growing Up Stateless in Post-Gulf War Kuwait

Mapping Exile: A Writer’s Story of Growing Up Stateless in Post-Gulf War Kuwait

Mona Kareem on the Heaviness of Absence and Those We Leave Behind

By Mona Kareem | October 25, 2021

Take a video tour of the Haruki Murakami Library.

Take a video tour of the Haruki Murakami Library.

By Walker Caplan | October 22, 2021

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is curating a series of classic works by Black playwrights.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is curating a series of classic works by Black playwrights.

By Walker Caplan | October 22, 2021

A super-rare first folio fragment of Shakespeare’s <em>Henry IV</em> is up for auction.

A super-rare first folio fragment of Shakespeare’s Henry IV is up for auction.

By Walker Caplan | October 22, 2021

Why we're so fascinated by hot, charming serial killers.

Why we're so fascinated by hot, charming serial killers.

By Vanessa Willoughby | October 22, 2021

Watching a Magazine, Reading a Movie: On Wes Anderson’s <em>The French Dispatch</em>

Watching a Magazine, Reading a Movie: On Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch

In Which Olivia Rutigliano “Reads” the Director’s Oeuvre

By Olivia Rutigliano | October 22, 2021

Ursula K. Le Guin always wanted Powell’s Books to be a proud union shop.

Ursula K. Le Guin always wanted Powell’s Books to be a proud union shop.

By Jonny Diamond | October 22, 2021

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