On the Small Family Firm Responsible for So Much American Economic Power

On the Small Family Firm Responsible for So Much American Economic Power

Zachary Karabell Traces the History of Brown Brothers Harriman

By Zachary Karabell | May 18, 2021

Virginie Despentes on Continuing the Feminist Revolution

Virginie Despentes on Continuing the Feminist Revolution

“The weaker sex—that’s always been a joke.”

By Virginie Despentes | May 18, 2021

How Racial Bias and Healthcare Inequality Are Killing Black Patients

How Racial Bias and Healthcare Inequality Are Killing Black Patients

Dr. Robert Pearl on the Pandemic and the Long-Reaching Impact of Institutional Racism

By Robert Pearl, MD | May 18, 2021

Protecting the “Holy City” <br>of Williamsburg

Protecting the “Holy City”
of Williamsburg

Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper on Hasidic Fear
of Gentrification

By Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper | May 18, 2021

Jon Levy: Actually Caring is the New Networking

Jon Levy: Actually Caring is the New Networking

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 18, 2021

“All crazy, all sick, these musicians.” On Maeterlinck and Debussy’s fraught collaboration.

“All crazy, all sick, these musicians.” On Maeterlinck and Debussy’s fraught collaboration.

By Walker Caplan | May 17, 2021

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Carl Phillips has won the $75,000 Jackson Poetry Prize.

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Shocking absolutely no one, Skyhorse is set to republish Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth biography.

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Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald was the first writer to use the term "T-shirt"?

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<em>The Mystery of Charles Dickens</em> has been named the best biography of the year.

The Mystery of Charles Dickens has been named the best biography of the year.

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Katherine Barber, who helped define “Canadian English,” has died at 61.

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Writers, take heart: K-Pop superstars are just like you!

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Symbiosis and Psychedelics: An Exploratory Conversation Between Edward St. Aubyn and Merlin Sheldrake

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The Author of Double Blind and the Author of Entangled Life Talk Scientific Inquiry

By Merlin Sheldrake and Edward St. Aubyn | May 17, 2021

What Stoic Philosophers Can Teach Us About Grief

What Stoic Philosophers Can Teach Us About Grief

Nancy Sherman on Loss, Resilience, and the Ancients

By Nancy Sherman | May 17, 2021

Public vs. Private: A Bet Between Two Astronauts to See Who Gets to Space First

Public vs. Private: A Bet Between Two Astronauts to See Who Gets to Space First

Nicholas Schmidle on the Jack Fischer and Mark Stucky Wagered a Night of Margaritas

By Nicholas Schmidle | May 17, 2021

Ravens and Doves: What We Can Learn from the Survival Narratives of Noah’s Ark

Ravens and Doves: What We Can Learn from the Survival Narratives of Noah’s Ark

This Week on the Emergence Magazine Podcast

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