Colm Tóibín has been named the new Irish Fiction Laureate.

Colm Tóibín has been named the new Irish Fiction Laureate.

By Dan Sheehan | January 24, 2022

Here are the winners of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence.

Here are the winners of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence.

By Snigdha Koirala | January 24, 2022

Watch the new trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s <em>Pinocchio</em> adaptation.

Watch the new trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio adaptation.

By Jonny Diamond | January 24, 2022

Grief and Celebration: On the Traumatic Histories and Beauty of Growth in Soil

Grief and Celebration: On the Traumatic Histories and Beauty of Growth in Soil

Camille T. Dungy on the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | January 24, 2022

Imaginary Dentistry and Real Novels: On My Father’s Deathbed Hallucinations

Imaginary Dentistry and Real Novels: On My Father’s Deathbed Hallucinations

Eileen Pollack on Passion and Peace

By Eileen Pollack | January 24, 2022

Pareidolia: Of Patterns, Randomness, and Attention

Pareidolia: Of Patterns, Randomness, and Attention

Kate Colby on Connection, Meaning, and the Idea of Art

By Kate Colby | January 24, 2022

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As a kid, George Orwell practiced black magic on a bully—and it worked.

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Concerns arise that a Uganda novelist imprisoned for Tweets has been tortured.

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EXCLUSIVE: Watch David Strathairn and Abraham Verghese Discuss Walt Whitman’s “The Wound-Dresser”

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“The Uterus and the American Dream.” Art-Making and Domestic Labor in <em>Bergman Island</em>

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Mira Ptacin on Mia Hansen-Løve’s New Film

By Mira Ptacin | January 21, 2022

“An Endless Waiting Room.” On the Complexities of the Current Crisis in Ukraine

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The Complicated History of the <em>Black Joke</em>, the Ship That Battled the Slave Trade

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