SPOTLIGHT

Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming

Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things

By Stephanie Bastek Friday, November 15, 2024

SPOTLIGHT

Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming

Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things

By Stephanie Bastek Friday, November 15, 2024

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The Patron Subjects

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All in Your Head

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“A Prayer for My Daughter” by W. B. Yeats

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Web Essays

My Cousin Manya

One survivor’s story

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Heart of Semi-Darkness

A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors

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Poco a Poco

Read Me a Poem

“To David, About His Education” by Howard Nemerov

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Dottie Lo Bue

House and home

Book Reviews

Masters of Horror and Magic

The German folklorists who helped build a nation

Web Essays

A Conversation With the Novelist

The Scholar‘s online book club meets Alice McDermott

Why Not?

Portrait of the Artist

Brenda Mallory

Repurposed Reality

Smarty Pants Podcast

Not Ready to Make Nice

Meet Lillian Smith, forgotten southern radical

Asturias Days

Marina

Read Me a Poem

“Gus: the Theatre Cat” by T. S. Eliot

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Measure by Measure

In Praise of Chadwick

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View from Rue Saint-Georges

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Closing my distance from a distant relation

Storytelling in the Podcast Age

Critics allege that the Fourth Estate is biased and out of touch. Here’s how one band of podcasters breaks down barriers between journalists and their audience.

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