The Cosmic Library

The Cosmic Library on Reflection and Refraction

The Final Episode of the Dostoevsky Season

 
By The Cosmic Library   May 7, 2025
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The Cosmic Library on the Philosophy of The Brothers Karamazov

By The Cosmic Library   April 30, 2025
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The Cosmic Library on How Dostoevsky’s Fiction Surpassed Dostoevsky

By The Cosmic Library   April 23, 2025
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The Cosmic Library presents The Brothers Karamazov: A Radio Play

By The Cosmic Library   April 16, 2025
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The Cosmic Library on Stories and Sleep

By The Cosmic Library   May 22, 2024
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The Cosmic Library on Short Story Institutions

By The Cosmic Library   May 15, 2024
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Justin Taylor on Weird Fiction

By The Cosmic Library   May 8, 2024
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The Cosmic Library Reads Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Wakefield”

By The Cosmic Library   May 1, 2024
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Deborah Treisman on the Challenge of Identifying the American Short Story

By The Cosmic Library   April 24, 2024
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Welcome to Season 5 of The Cosmic Library

By The Cosmic Library   April 4, 2024
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On Journey to the West’s Capacity for Reinvention Across Centuries

By The Cosmic Library   July 6, 2023
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Cinematic Transcendence: On Legendary Quests and Wuxia Cinema

By The Cosmic Library   June 27, 2023
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Spiritual Clarity and Satirical Play: On the Monkey King as Allegory

By The Cosmic Library   June 21, 2023
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On the Lawful Chaos of Journey to the West

By The Cosmic Library   June 13, 2023
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An Introduction to Journey to the West, the 16th-Century Chinese Novel of Comic Mischief and Spirituality

By The Cosmic Library   June 6, 2023
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Welcome to Season 4 of The Cosmic Library

By The Cosmic Library   May 30, 2023
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The Unpronounceable Name of God: Concluding a Journey Through the Hebrew Bible

By The Cosmic Library   May 10, 2022
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Struggling with Disaster—and Language—in the Hebrew Bible

By The Cosmic Library   May 3, 2022
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On Sigmund Freud and the “Dream Space” of the Hebrew Bible

By The Cosmic Library   April 26, 2022
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Rules, Rituals, and Laws of Emotion in the Hebrew Bible

By The Cosmic Library   April 19, 2022
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How the Hebrew Bible Poses Fundamental Questions About Language

By The Cosmic Library   April 12, 2022
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Welcome to Season 3 of The Cosmic Library

By The Cosmic Library   April 6, 2022
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How Stories Can Transcend Author, Culture, and History

By The Cosmic Library   December 7, 2021
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Why Do Some Stories Survive the Test of Time?

By The Cosmic Library   November 30, 2021
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Formulaic Surprises: How 1,001 Nights Startles with Sameness

By The Cosmic Library   November 23, 2021
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