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10:36
Jonny Sun
You are not alone in your loneliness
2:28
Tim Seibles
"First Kiss"
14:33
David Peterson
Why language is humanity's greatest invention
4:35
Iseult Gillespie
Why should you read Shakespeare's "The Tempest"?
3:56
Iseult Gillespie
Why should you read Flannery O'Connor?
4:22
Iseult Gillespie
Why should you read "Fahrenheit 451"?
17:03
Casey Gerald
Embrace your raw, strange magic
4:26
Iseult Gillespie
Why should you read "A Midsummer Night's Dream?"
5:04
Mia Nacamulli
Why should you read Kurt Vonnegut?
15:05
Nora McInerny
We don't "move on" from grief. We move forward with it
11:16
Gabby Rivera
The story of Marvel's first queer Latina superhero
10:06
Chiki Sarkar
How India's smartphone revolution is creating a new generation of readers and writers
4:55
Leonora Neville
The princess who rewrote history
5:38
Ilan Stavans
Why should you read "Don Quixote"?
4:30
Iseult Gillespie
Everything you need to know to read "The Canterbury Tales"
18:27
Michelle Kuo
The healing power of reading
4:53
Scott Peeples
Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe?
14:08
Jason B. Rosenthal
The journey through loss and grief
3:39
Caroline Weaver
Why the pencil is perfect
5:03
Iseult Gillespie
Why should you read Charles Dickens?
7:49
Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa
Black life at the intersection of birth and death
6:09
Brendan Pelsue
Why should you read "Macbeth"?
11:00
Cleo Wade
Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care
10:54
Luvvie Ajayi Jones
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
6:03
Iseult Gillespie
Why should you read Virginia Woolf?
21:58
Elif Shafak
The revolutionary power of diverse thought
9:20
Nnedi Okorafor
Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa
5:10
Brendan Pelsue
Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"?
15:55
Anne Lamott
12 truths I learned from life and writing
20:15
David Whyte
A lyrical bridge between past, present and future
21:58
Shonda Rhimes and Cyndi Stivers
The future of storytelling
14:30
Jorge Ramos
Why journalists have an obligation to challenge power
15:30
Deborah Lipstadt
Behind the lies of Holocaust denial
47:33
Gretchen Carlson, David Brooks
Political common ground in a polarized United States
15:17
Megan Phelps-Roper
I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left
6:26
Stephanie Busari
How fake news does real harm
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