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ROBERT MERRIHEW ADAMS | Like their medieval scholastic predecessors, the best known Continental Rationalist philosophers of the seventeenth century...

PHILLIP SHERMAN | Chimpanzees are prone to extreme violence when confronted with a territorial dispute...

ALISSA WILKINSON | Andre Dubus III has made a career of exploring the lives of people on the margins...

KATIE HEFFELFINGER | Metaphors are powerful shapers of cultural concepts...

THOM SATTERLEE | In the mid-1960s, after completing a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Kentucky and traveling across the country to study creative writing as a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford...

JAMES MCGRATH | Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy explores the human potential to use science to redefine what it means to be human...

ARTHUR REMILLARD | The Pittsburgh Steelers nearly broke Terry O’Neill’s heart...

WHITNEY S. BODMAN | I appreciate the effort involved in Rachel Friedman’s review of my new book, but I would like to elaborate on reader-response theory as a justifiable method in the study of the Qur’an...

JAMES HIGDON | When I started working on the book that would become The Cornbread Mafia, I never thought that I would be telling a story of God’s law versus Man’s law...

JOSHUA DUBLER | My project was initially slated to take place at New Jersey’s Rahway State Prison...

BRETT T. ROBINSON | Steve Jobs invited a number of lofty comparisons during his career...

NANCY THEBAUT | What could Cimabue’s 1280 panel painting, Madonna and Child Surrounded by Angels, and Louis Blériot’s airplane from 1909 possibly have to do with one another?...