The Most Important Poem of the 20th Century: On T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” at 100
“The poem is such a key landmark that all modern poets know it, whether they swerve around it, crash into it, or attempt to assimilate it.”
A Dreamer of Worlds: Anna Badkhen Explores Ethiopa (and the Etymologies of Maps)
“What each map always implies is the observer, you.”
On the Rich, Hidden History of the Banjo
Kristina R. Gaddy on the Instrument’s Spiritual and Cultural Significance
How T.S. Eliot’s Therapeutic Practice Produced The Waste Land
David Barnes on a Poet, His Doctor, and the Making of a Literary Masterpiece
Lan Samantha Chang on How—or Whether—to Evolve Your Aesthetic or Style
From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner
“You Find a Way to Be Distinctive.” George Saunders on His Writerly Evolution
In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
How Modern is The Waste Land, After All?
“What could be cooler than the harmony between two great artists born in two different centuries and half a world apart?”
Why Is Flying So Miserable These Days? And Was It Ever That Glamorous?
Ann Hood in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
The Grief of Publishing a Book Without the Parent Who Inspired You
Monica Macansantos on the Words Her Father Awakened
Harold R. Johnson on How We Tell Our Own Stories
“We are the stories we are told and we are the stories we tell ourselves.”
Realizing History Through Fantasy Literature: Reclaiming Tolkien’s Hobbit For the Left
Robert T. Tally Jr. in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
What Boeing’s 737 Max Tragedy Reveals About the Immorality of Late Stage Industrial Capitalism
Peter Robison in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
Hell and Back by Craig Johnson, Read by George Guidall
Longmire is Lost, Remembering Nothing of His Past
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