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Buddhism’s <em>Dukkha</em> and Hamlet’s Dust: On Shakespeare’s Spiritual Wisdom

Buddhism’s Dukkha and Hamlet’s Dust: On Shakespeare’s Spiritual Wisdom

Lauren Shufran on How Reading Shakespeare Helped Her Better Read Herself

By Lauren Shufran | May 25, 2022

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

“To many in the Western world, the fact that the mind was free but separate from the heavenly soul was unbearable.”

By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary | May 18, 2022

On the Gnostic Ironies of Poets Nathaniel Mackey and Fanny Howe

On the Gnostic Ironies of Poets Nathaniel Mackey and Fanny Howe

Steven Toussaint Considers the Melding of Ambivalence and Political Commitment

By Steven Toussaint | May 16, 2022

Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime

Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime

“Perhaps more than any visionary before or since, Blake had the creative skill to express what he experienced.”

By John Higgs | May 13, 2022

Courageous Afghan teenagers help start an underground book club in defiance of Taliban.

Courageous Afghan teenagers help start an underground book club in defiance of Taliban.

By Jonny Diamond | May 9, 2022

WATCH: Liana Finck on Retelling the Book of Genesis

WATCH: Liana Finck on Retelling the Book of Genesis

In Conversation with Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell at Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | May 5, 2022

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Grand old American tradition of book-burning alive and well in the Tennessee state legislature.

By Jonny Diamond | April 28, 2022

Sara Baume on the Uncanny Feeling of Discovering a Book with the Same Title as Her Own

By Sara Baume | April 27, 2022

Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History

By Arundhati Roy | April 21, 2022

How the Transcendentalists Shaped American Art, Philosophy and Spirituality

How the Transcendentalists Shaped American Art, Philosophy and Spirituality

Dominic Green on the Legacies of Whitman, Thoreau, Tyndale, and More

By Dominic Green | April 21, 2022

Rules, Rituals, and Laws of Emotion in the Hebrew Bible

Rules, Rituals, and Laws of Emotion in the Hebrew Bible

From Season 3 of The Cosmic Library Podcast

By The Cosmic Library | April 19, 2022

The Bardo of Widowhood: Considering Kathryn Davis’s Meditations on Grief

The Bardo of Widowhood: Considering Kathryn Davis’s Meditations on Grief

Howard Norman Reads Aurelia, Aurélia

By Howard Norman | April 18, 2022

How Indigenous Societies Fought to Preserve Their Blended Gender Identities in the Face of Colonialism

How Indigenous Societies Fought to Preserve Their Blended Gender Identities in the Face of Colonialism

Gregory D. Smithers on Anticolonialism and Resistance to Binaries

By Gregory D. Smithers | April 12, 2022

How Marshall McLuhan Was the Patron Saint of <em>Wired</em> Magazine

How Marshall McLuhan Was the Patron Saint of Wired Magazine

Nick Ripatrazone on “the Rolling Stone of Technology” and the Half-Life of an Electronic Prophet

By Nick Ripatrazone | March 30, 2022

<em>Good Place</em> Creator Michael Schur Wonders: What Makes Someone Good or Bad?

Good Place Creator Michael Schur Wonders: What Makes Someone Good or Bad?

On T.M. Scanlon's “Quick-Start Guide” to Ethical Living

By Michael Schur | March 24, 2022

Lily Dunn Reads from Her Memoir, <em>Sins of My Father</em>

Lily Dunn Reads from Her Memoir, Sins of My Father

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | March 16, 2022

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