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The Complicated Comforts of Marilynne Robinson

The Complicated Comforts of Marilynne Robinson

Could One Writer Help Me Reckon with Personal and Political Upheaval?

By Rachel Vorona Cote | April 13, 2018

The World Might Not Be As Disastrous As We Think It Is

The World Might Not Be As Disastrous As We Think It Is

Steven Pinker on the Virulence of Contemporary Pessimism

By Steven Pinker | March 1, 2018

11 Books to Read If You Want to Understand Caste in India

11 Books to Read If You Want to Understand Caste in India

A Reading List Anchored by Dalit Voices

By S. Shankar | December 4, 2017

Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

"I had that nervous date feeling, like you were all a giant Earth sign”

By Kyle Lucia Wu | December 1, 2017

Science vs. Religion: Travels in the Great American Divide

Science vs. Religion: Travels in the Great American Divide

Dinty W. Moore Tries to Find the Mythical Middle Ground

By Dinty W. Moore | October 30, 2017

How Loving <em>The Princess Bride</em> Led Me to Buddhism

How Loving The Princess Bride Led Me to Buddhism

Ethan Nichtern on the Film He's Seen (At Least) 30 Times

By Ethan Nichern | September 22, 2017

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Wearing the Veil: What It Means to Wear the Hijab (Or Not)

By Sheila Regan | August 31, 2017

In the Age of Trump, Reclaiming the Golem as a Symbol of Jewish Resistance

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Dreams of My Mother, for One Last Passover

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From Imbibing Spirits to Spiritualist Mediums

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Life in the Connecticut Suburbs

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Angels, Devils, and Falling From Grace into Fiction

Angels, Devils, and Falling From Grace into Fiction

Sara Flannery Murphy on Leaving Her Charismatic Catholicism

By Sara Flannery Murphy | February 9, 2017

The Genius of Judaism

The Genius of Judaism

Bernard-Henri Lévy

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 10, 2017

Kurt Vonnegut's Atheist Marvels, Just in Time For Christmas

Kurt Vonnegut's Atheist Marvels, Just in Time For Christmas

How the Famous Humanist Achieved Transcendence Without God

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 23, 2016

How Borges Taught Me to Embrace My Jewish Heritage

How Borges Taught Me to Embrace My Jewish Heritage

"Borges was my rabbinical master in a Yeshiva the Size of the Globe"

By Ilan Stavans | September 2, 2016

Gretzky to Wittgenstein to Nabokov... He Scores!

Gretzky to Wittgenstein to Nabokov... He Scores!

Memorializing Greatness in Sport is as Complex as Imagining
One's Own Immortality

By Andrew Stark | August 29, 2016

Starting Your Own Religion Is Actually Pretty Easy

Starting Your Own Religion Is Actually Pretty Easy

Elizabeth Kelly Offers a Few Tips on Founding a Fictional Church

By Elizabeth Kelly | July 13, 2016

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