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You Too? Kim DeRose on Telling and Retelling Stories of Sexual Assault
"When we craft stories, we don’t necessarily write ourselves; sometimes we write the characters and stories we need to see."
Evolutionary Links: What Great Apes Tell Us About Being Human
From Alison Bashford's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution
Brooklyn Public Library’s Leigh Hurwitz on Helping Young People Resist Censorship
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
How Oppenheimer Fails to Unpack the Craft at the Core of Its Drama
“When it comes to STEM in film, there can be drama in the minutiae.”
Anne Applebaum, Robert Kagan, and Evan Osnos on Democracy
In Conversation on Sun Valley Writers’ Conference’s Beyond the Page
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
"Offering a mouthful of nectar that tastes faintly of blood."
Aparna Nancherla on Writing as a Procrastinator
In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast
Mona Awad on Beauty Cults and Tom Cruise
In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books
From Serialization to Novelization: On the First Iteration of Frank Herbert’s Dune
"Books have the ability to travel into the future in a way that no other written medium does."
On Shakespeare’s Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard’s Plays From Being Burned
A Short History of the First Folio
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