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TIMOTHY LARSEN | Once upon a time, when young princesses were still plentiful, there nevertheless was a scarcity of children’s literature...

ABRAM VAN ENGEN | In her 2004 Pulitzer-Prize winning novel Gilead, Marilynne Robinson includes an odd scene...

BRAD HOLDEN | Fantasies, like dreams, can surprise you...

ANDREW KAU | In a 2014 interview with The Harvard Gazette Stephen Greenblatt recounted his near-miss with the practice of law...

CARLA BARICZ | A few days before New Year’s, I was awakened from deep sleep by the slow, shuddering groan of the bookshelves...

CLIO DOYLE | Science was everywhere in the seventeenth century, especially in literature...

A.M. JUSTER | French departments do not lavish attention on the golden era of Moliére and Racine to the exclusion of later French writers...

ADHAAR NOOR DESAI | I think most of my students don’t find Shakespeare very funny when they read his plays, even after they’ve grown...

LUKE JOHNSON | I began reading Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry in a hospital waiting room filled with fake-leather chairs that reclined too far...

BRYAN GIEMZA | If A Prayer Journal were our only window into Flannery O’Connor’s thoughts in her early twenties, what would we say was on her mind?...

ANN PATCHETT | I imagine I’m fairly conscious of what I’m writing...

ANDREW LANHAM | Physicists hypothesize something called a naked singularity, a black hole that spins so fast it breaks the laws of space and time and becomes visible...