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Tim Seibles

"First Kiss"

Posted Apr 2019
5:38

Ilan Stavans

Why should you read "Don Quixote"?

Posted Feb 2019
3:56

Iseult Gillespie

Why should you read Flannery O'Connor?

Posted Feb 2019
4:35

Iseult Gillespie

Why should you read Shakespeare's "The Tempest"?

Posted Feb 2019
4:22

Iseult Gillespie

Why should you read "Fahrenheit 451"?

Posted Jan 2019
17:03

Casey Gerald

Embrace your raw, strange magic

Posted Jan 2019
10:06

Chiki Sarkar

How India's smartphone revolution is creating a new generation of readers and writers

Posted Jan 2019
4:26

Iseult Gillespie

Why should you read "A Midsummer Night's Dream?"

Posted Dec 2018
5:04

Mia Nacamulli

Why should you read Kurt Vonnegut?

Posted Nov 2018
11:16

Gabby Rivera

The story of Marvel's first queer Latina superhero

Posted Nov 2018
4:55

Leonora Neville

The princess who rewrote history

Posted Oct 2018
4:30

Iseult Gillespie

Everything you need to know to read "The Canterbury Tales"

Posted Oct 2018
4:53

Scott Peeples

Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe?

Posted Sep 2018
14:08

Jason B. Rosenthal

The journey through loss and grief

Posted Jun 2018
3:39

Caroline Weaver

Why the pencil is perfect

Posted Mar 2018
7:49

Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

Black life at the intersection of birth and death

Posted Feb 2018
11:00

Cleo Wade

Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care

Posted Jan 2018
10:54

Luvvie Ajayi

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable

Posted Dec 2017
9:20

Nnedi Okorafor

Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa

Posted Nov 2017
21:58

Shonda Rhimes and Cyndi Stivers

The future of storytelling

Posted Oct 2017
21:58

Elif Shafak

The revolutionary power of diverse thought

Posted Oct 2017
20:15

David Whyte

A lyrical bridge between past, present and future

Posted Aug 2017
14:30

Jorge Ramos

Why journalists have an obligation to challenge power

Posted Jul 2017
15:55

Anne Lamott

12 truths I learned from life and writing

Posted Jun 2017
16:09

Lucy Kalanithi

What makes life worth living in the face of death

Posted May 2017
15:30

Deborah Lipstadt

Behind the lies of Holocaust denial

Posted May 2017
6:26

Stephanie Busari

How fake news does real harm

Posted Apr 2017
15:07

David Casarett

A doctor's case for medical marijuana

Posted Apr 2017
29:28

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We should all be feminists

Posted Apr 2017
47:33

Gretchen Carlson, David Brooks

Political common ground in a polarized United States

Posted Apr 2017
10:51

Emtithal Mahmoud

A young poet tells the story of Darfur

Posted Mar 2017
16:13

Karina Galperin

Should we simplify spelling?

Posted Mar 2017
7:28

John Koenig

Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions

Posted Mar 2017
15:17

Megan Phelps-Roper

I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left

Posted Mar 2017
8:37

Lara Setrakian

3 ways to fix a broken news industry

Posted Feb 2017
16:10

Ashley Judd

How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control

Posted Jan 2017