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Prolific Polyglots: Authors Who Wrote in a Second Language

June 23, 2014

Jack Kerouac, Samuel Beckett, Milan Kundera — the list of writers who worked outside their native tongues isn’t just impressive, it’s surprising.

Book Sword: Raymond Carver, David Rakoff, Simone de Beauvoir & More

By Kate Gavino

August 06, 2013

We take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... deeper meaning? Hidden truth? Happy coincidence?

Book Sword: William Faulkner, Milan Kundera, and Michael Cunningham

By Kate Gavino

March 13, 2013

Everyone from Galileo to Jim Morrison to countless Scrabble wordsmiths have played around with letters to form their perfect anagrams. We take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... well, that's up to you. A deeper meaning? A hidden truth? Or just a happy coincidence?

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Eat Prey Drug: Summerland

Escaping a catastrophic blizzard to take peyote in the Arizona desert, Paul Kwiatkowski concludes his investigation into alternate perceptions of consciousness.

The Biggest Little-Known Influence on H. P. Lovecraft

M. R. James was an English author, scholar and inspiration to Lovecraft, though the world may have forgotten it.

The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still

Get a bleary-eyed view of moonshining from a modern day bootlegger.