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Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History
“Our hopes have been cauterized, our imaginations infected.”
How the Transcendentalists Shaped American Art, Philosophy and Spirituality
Dominic Green on the Legacies of Whitman, Thoreau, Tyndale, and More
Why This Era of Global Change Demands New Language
Audrey Schulman on the Limits of Scientific Terminology
On the Absolute Pleasure of British Historical Reality TV Shows
Colleen Hubbard Couldn’t Have Written Her Novel Without the BBC’s Historic Farm Series
Edward Hirsch on Locating the Roots of the American Poetry Tradition
Poetry as Protest, Lament, and Call to Hope
John Keats on Film: Considering Jane Campion’s Exquisitely Rendered Bright Star
Lucasta Miller Investigates the Limits and Possibilities of Literary Biopics
Maeve Higgins Wants Us to Take Levity (and Language) More Seriously
In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast
“A Spiritual-Industrial Complex.” SJ Sindu on Writing the Life of a Child God
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
What Does It Mean to Cook Dinner Under Occupation? Rewatching The Time That Remains
Randa Jarrar in Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on the Open Form Podcast
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
Of new books by Elif Batuman, Gary Indiana, Patrick McCabe, and more
Imagining the Lives of the Aviators Who Inspired William Faulkner
Taylor Brown on Looking to the Past (Which Isn't Even Past)
Asadollah Amraee and Arezoo Salari on the Process of Translating The Elephant of Belfast and Its Resonance in Iran
S. Kirk Walsh Talks to the Iranian Translators of Her Novel
On Fictionalizing the Long-Suppressed and Complicated Histories of Holland and Indonesia
Anne Lazurko Explores Colonialism, Revolution, and Family
Zac Smith: What’s the Point of Writing if You’re Not Having Any Fun?
In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl
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