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How a Pandemic Happens: We Knew This Was Coming

How a Pandemic Happens: We Knew This Was Coming

Mike Davis on the Inevitability of Catastrophe

By Mike Davis | May 18, 2020

How E.M. Forster's Only Foray Into Sci-Fi Predicted Social Distancing

How E.M. Forster's Only Foray Into Sci-Fi Predicted Social Distancing

Gabrielle Bellot on the Prescient Parallels of "The Machine Stops"

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 18, 2020

On the City of Florence's Struggle to Get Back Dante's Body

On the City of Florence's Struggle to Get Back Dante's Body

The City That Rejected the Poet Came to Regret It

By Guy P. Raffa | May 18, 2020

How Energy, Chaos, and a Flair for Entertainment Created Nightly News

How Energy, Chaos, and a Flair for Entertainment Created Nightly News

Lisa Napoli on Ted Kavanau

By Lisa Napoli | May 18, 2020

Here's Katherine Anne Porter describing how she resisted death during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.

Here's Katherine Anne Porter describing how she resisted death during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.

By Dan Sheehan | May 15, 2020

Oh my (demi)god: Percy Jackson is going to be a TV show.

Oh my (demi)god: Percy Jackson is going to be a TV show.

By Katie Yee | May 15, 2020

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Time for Nerd Jeopardy! (A Literary Trivia Game Show)

By The Virtual Book Channel | May 15, 2020

Why Do Some Writers Burn Their Work?

By Alex George | May 15, 2020

With Apologies to Susan Sontag, We're Going to Need Metaphor to Get Through This Global Illness

By David Farrier | May 15, 2020

Why <em>Sesame Street</em> Was a Revolutionary Force for Children's Television

Why Sesame Street Was a Revolutionary Force for Children's Television

David Kamp on the Radical Creators of an Iconic Show

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When it Comes to Coronavirus, What Does 'After' Mean?

When it Comes to Coronavirus, What Does 'After' Mean?

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Meet the Stone Collector of Iceland's Eastern Coast

Meet the Stone Collector of Iceland's Eastern Coast

A. Kendra Greene Gathers the History of a Life

By A. Kendra Greene | May 15, 2020

Slurs, Barbs, Digs: Robert Lopez on the Power of Single-Syllable Epithets

Slurs, Barbs, Digs: Robert Lopez on the Power of Single-Syllable Epithets

Reflections on Racist Language, From the Schoolyard to the Kitchen

By Robert Lopez | May 15, 2020

An Evening With Edwidge Danticat and Francesca Momplaisir

An Evening With Edwidge Danticat and Francesca Momplaisir

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Bryan Washington has won the £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize.

Bryan Washington has won the £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize.

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