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Mira Ptacin: Is Baby a Luxury?

When a chemical stick revealed that our little family was about to change, we were overjoyed. But not insured. Image from Flickr via Pensiero By Mira Ptacin This past year, I found myself in a…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3118 words)

Bloodchild and Other Stories

[an error occurred while processing this directive] Go to Chapter One Section • Go to Book World's Review Bloodchild and Other Stories By Octavia E. Butler Chapter One: Bloodchild My last night…
PUBLISHED: May 12, 1997
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7100 words)

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On the business of literature

The following piece by Richard Nash will appear in our Spring 2013 issue, as the lead in a portfolio focused on the business of literature. I. One of the remarkable deficits in contemporary accounts…
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8104 words)

The Ghost Writes Back

Amy Boesky There was nothing surprising about my professor’s lecture on Shakespeare until, out of the blue, she started talking about ghostwriting. I was in the back of the packed auditorium…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5178 words)

Cinema Tarantino: The Making of Pulp Fiction

The first independent film to gross more than $200 million, Pulp Fiction was a shot of adrenaline to Hollywood’s heart, reviving John Travolta’s career, making stars of Samuel L. Jackson and Uma…
PUBLISHED: March 13, 2013
LENGTH: 36 minutes (9048 words)

What’s Inside America’s Banks?

The financial crisis had many causes—too much borrowing, foolish investments, misguided regulation—but at its core, the panic resulted from a lack of transparency. The reason no one…
LENGTH: 37 minutes (9370 words)

When Bram Met Walt

Ever since Bram Stoker unleashed Dracula on readers in 1897, the undead have been stalking literary and pop culture with abandon. At first it was a slow trickle, as others imitated Stoker on the…
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6293 words)

In the Palace of the Jade Lion

Just before the Time of Troubles there lived in the Kingdom of Zhao a poor young scholar named Xu Jian. He owned nothing except the clothes on his back and a battered pen case, but he had done well…
LENGTH: 48 minutes (12203 words)
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