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Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

A Trip to Tolstoy Farm

by Jordan Michael Smith September 12, 2018October 19, 2022

Even if one of the last surviving Tolstoyan communes has fallen short of Leo Tolstoy’s ideals, it’s still turned into something meaningful. It’s a place for people who don’t want to be found.

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes

To Live and Die in Utopian New Zealand

by Aaron Gilbreath February 21, 2018October 19, 2022

How the super rich like Peter Thiel are buying land in New Zealand to survive the apocalypse.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

Living Differently: How the Feminist Utopia Is Something You Have to Be Doing Now

by Longreads December 14, 2017February 22, 2023

Lynne Segal points out that if the dystopia is already here, then the utopia must be here too.

Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction

Beautiful Nowheres: ‘No Man’s Sky’ and the 500th Anniversary of ‘Utopia’

by benhuberman May 25, 2016October 19, 2022

Five centuries after Thomas More’s classic was first published, we still dabble in perfect-world-building.

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