The Comic Story of Magnificent Mei and Friends was developed as part of the WHO-UNICEF Helping Adolescents Thrive initiative. The story is for adolescents aged 10-14 years. Through a combination of images and text, the story…
Charles Mingus marveled at his roommate’s self-assurance as a writer. “He could walk into a room with a typewriter and not leave until he finished a play,” he said. “No revisions, just typing.” Shepard would complete fifteen…
This piece marks the 50th interview in contributing editor Peter Mishler’s long-running series of conversations with contemporary poets. To celebrate this occasion, Literary Hub has partnered with Faber to present a series of…
My earliest reading memory Not my earliest reading memory, exactly, but my earliest memory of reading with avid enjoyment: The Three Investigators mysteries, a series of kids’ books about three juvenile detectives operating in far-off…
Malevolent spirits be damned – theatres can be haunted simply by the memory of bad plays and perhaps unscary horror in particular. The last time London’s Ambassadors theatre aimed to give audiences the shivers, with The Enfield Haunting, it…
In 2017, 10 years after Susan Orlean profiled Caltech-trained physicist turned professional origami artist Robert Lang for the New Yorker, she attended the OrigamiUSA convention to take Lang’s workshop on folding a “Taiwan goldfish”. I was…
At the turn of the decade, gay male and non-binary pop stars seemed poised to take pop music by storm. Lil Nas X broke out with Old Town Road – which blew up on TikTok, sold about 18.5m copies and remains tied with Shaboozey’s A Bar Song…
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