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The Annotated Nightstand: What Tammy Nguyễn is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Tammy Nguyễn is Reading Now and Next

A Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | September 15, 2022

Why Writers Need to Confront and Create With Their Most Unpleasant Emotions

Why Writers Need to Confront and Create With Their Most Unpleasant Emotions

Philip Schultz Discusses the Creative Power Behind Anger and Shame

By Philip Schultz | June 8, 2022

On Finally Finding an Authentic Voice (After Writing Several Dozen Books)

On Finally Finding an Authentic Voice (After Writing Several Dozen Books)

Mark Scarbrough Takes the Scenic Route to Memoir Writing

By Mark Scarbrough | November 29, 2021

Staring Down Horror: On Anna Akhmatova, Primo Levi, and Recovering Hope From Suffering

Staring Down Horror: On Anna Akhmatova, Primo Levi, and Recovering Hope From Suffering

Michael Ignatieff Examines What It Means to Find Solace in the Face of Destruction

By Michael Ignatieff | November 10, 2021

Divine Comedy">Hiking with Dante? On Seeking Ourselves in the <emDivine Comedy">

Divine Comedy">Hiking with Dante? On Seeking Ourselves in the Divine Comedy

Randy Boyagoda Considers the Many Longings of Dante’s Journey

By Randy Boyagoda | September 21, 2021

Remember the Dante’s Inferno video game (and its deranged gonzo marketing)?

Remember the Dante’s Inferno video game (and its deranged gonzo marketing)?

By Walker Caplan | September 14, 2021

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Inferno">Mary Jo Bang Wonders Why It Takes So Long to Meet Beatrice in Dante’s Inferno

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A new digital humanities project celebrates Dante’s impact on art around the world.

By Walker Caplan | July 15, 2021

A nun just unearthed a previously unknown Dante manuscript.

By Walker Caplan | July 8, 2021

Shakespeare and Dante fans are feuding in the papers.

Shakespeare and Dante fans are feuding in the papers.

By Walker Caplan | March 30, 2021

Art Young's Dante-Inspired Satire Replaced Demons with Exploitative Capitalists

Art Young's Dante-Inspired Satire Replaced Demons with Exploitative Capitalists

Steven Heller on an Old Master of Political Cartoons

By Steven Heller | June 29, 2020

On the City of Florence's Struggle to Get Back Dante's Body

On the City of Florence's Struggle to Get Back Dante's Body

The City That Rejected the Poet Came to Regret It

By Guy P. Raffa | May 18, 2020

Why We Feel So Compelled to Make Maps of Fictional Worlds

Why We Feel So Compelled to Make Maps of Fictional Worlds

Fantasy, and More">Lev Grossman on the History of Cartography in Sci Fi,
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By Lev Grossman | October 2, 2019

The Journey That Changed Geoffrey Chaucer's Life

The Journey That Changed Geoffrey Chaucer's Life

Two Tyrants, Two Poets, and a Long Pilgrimage to Milan

By Marion Turner | April 29, 2019

An Ode to the Sun by Karl Ove Knausgaard

An Ode to the Sun by Karl Ove Knausgaard

"Absolutely Unapproachable and Completely Indifferent to its Creation"

By Karl Ove Knausgaard | August 22, 2017

In A Dark Wood

In A Dark Wood

Joseph Luzzi

By Lit Hub Excerpts | July 20, 2016

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