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When an (Extremely Prolific) Author Shares Your Name

When an (Extremely Prolific) Author Shares Your Name

Bryan Alistair Charles on the Unexpected Gifts of Discovering Brian Charles

By Bryan Alistair Charles | March 11, 2025

Double, Double: On the Unsettling Power of Doppelganger Stories

Double, Double: On the Unsettling Power of Doppelganger Stories

Padma Viswanathan Imagines Radically Different Paths Her Life Could Have Taken

By Padma Viswanathan | November 14, 2024

Who Are You? Identity, the Self, and Their Many Multiples

Who Are You? Identity, the Self, and Their Many Multiples

Mairead Small Staid Considers What It Means to Not Recognize Ourselves and the Ones We Love

By Mairead Small Staid | April 8, 2024

On Edgar Allan Poe's Creepy Doppelgänger Story,

On Edgar Allan Poe's Creepy Doppelgänger Story, "William Wilson"

The History of Literature Podcast ">A Month of Edgar Allan Poe Continues on
The History of Literature Podcast

By History of Literature | October 12, 2020

Creepy Stories (and More) from Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

Creepy Stories (and More) from Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

Fiction/Non/Fiction">A Halloween Episode with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 31, 2019

13 Literary Celebrity Lookalikes

13 Literary Celebrity Lookalikes

Because Everyone Has a Doppelgänger

By Emily Temple | December 13, 2017

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Encountering My Son's Older Doppelganger

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Game of Clones: On Our Fixation with Dystopic Doppelgängers

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Our Doppelgängers, Ourselves

By Alan Glynn | September 19, 2016

Borges is Still Dead. (Or Is He? And Which Borges?)

Borges is Still Dead. (Or Is He? And Which Borges?)

On the 30th Anniversary of the Death of Jorge Luis Borges

By Jonathan Russell Clark | June 14, 2016