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You Can’t Choose Your Influences: On the Unexpected Book That Made Me a Writer

You Can’t Choose Your Influences: On the Unexpected Book That Made Me a Writer

Matt Rowland Hill on the Intersection of Spiritual and Literary Canons

By Matt Rowland Hill | July 6, 2022

Of Wazhazhe Land and Language: The Ongoing Project of Ancestral Work

Of Wazhazhe Land and Language: The Ongoing Project of Ancestral Work

Chelsea T. Hicks on the Land Back Movement and Working Toward Rematriation

By Chelsea T. Hicks | June 22, 2022

This right wing religious website is telling readers to ruin LGBQT+ library displays.

This right wing religious website is telling readers to ruin LGBQT+ library displays.

By Jonny Diamond | June 17, 2022

How Yoga Carries Its Own Legacies of Violence

How Yoga Carries Its Own Legacies of Violence

Fariha Róisín on Understanding Caste Supremacy and Teaching Yoga in the West

By Fariha Róisín | June 14, 2022

Memories of the Pogroms: Understanding History Through Family Stories

Memories of the Pogroms: Understanding History Through Family Stories

Lisa Brahin on What She Learned From Her Grandmother

By Lisa Brahin | June 13, 2022

Can we please make Banned Book Fairs the hot new nationwide trend?

Can we please make Banned Book Fairs the hot new nationwide trend?

By Jonny Diamond | June 10, 2022

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Hiding My Sexuality to Preserve My Life in the Nigerian Church

By Edafe Okporo | June 10, 2022

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

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How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

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

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

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

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

“When I set about the task of reading Henrichsen’s Seven Steeples I did not expect to find any kinship.”

By Sara Baume | April 27, 2022

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

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

“Our hopes have been cauterized, our imaginations infected.”

By Arundhati Roy | April 21, 2022

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