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Literature
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The Psychology of Seth Godin’s The Icarus Deception
True thought leader books are captivating because they "get" how readers' minds work and how their hearts ache.
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Humanities Aren’t a Science. Stop Treating Them Like One.
Quantification, the lingua franca of science and mathematics, does little to aid our understanding of literature and the humanities.
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The Big Lesson of a Little Prince: (Re)capture the Creativity of Childhood
It is the rare person who is able to hold on to the sense of wonderment, of presence, of sheer enjoyment of life and its possibilities that is so apparent in our younger selves.
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If We Remember More, Can We Read Deeper– and Create Better?
Can memory enhance our understanding of literature and expand our creative horizons?
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Hamlet and the Region of Death
What Franco Moretti found by turning Shakespeare into data.
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Are Artists Liars?
Humans are natural-born storytellers, so lying is in our blood. Ian Leslie considers how this comes out in our art.
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What is this thing called rap?
It's common practice for an undergraduate literature major to have her face blown off by some facet of post colonial theory.