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Grendel at 50: How John Gardner’s Finest Novel Undermines His Ideas About Moral Fiction
“Grendel is funny, entertaining, troubling, and above all unruly; the novel refuses to behave.”
Why Does Lionel Messi Ignore the Ball for the First Five Minutes of a Match?
Simon Kuper on the Life and Career of an Enigmatic Football Genius
The Ugliness of Comic Sans Has a Practical Use
Jonah Lehrer on the Easy Recall of Certain “Disfluent” Fonts
One in a Million: Where Were You When You Heard that Aaliyah Died?
Kathy Iandoli on the Impact of Generational Celebrity Deaths
How Surrendering to Communal Time Can Make Us All Happier
Oliver Burkeman on the Social Benefits of Nationwide Vacation
The Beautiful Impossibility of the World’s Largest Pearl
Bill François on the Natural Treasures of the Oyster
Myriam Gurba Performs Her Story “Writing Ourselves Into Bed”
On Storybound, Our Radio-Theater Podcast
My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction
Andrew Palmer Struggles with the Idea of Creating Characters (Partly) Based on an Ex
WATCH: Tod Goldberg on Being Ruled By Your Own Game
From the New Video Series Authors in the Tent, Hosted by Ona Russell
Mariella Guzzoni on Van Gogh’s Love of Literature
This Week from the Big Table Podcast with JC Gabel
Meredith Westgate on Memory, Unreliable Narrators, and the Risks of Knowing Your Partner Too Well
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