Kevin Nguyen on how Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life” was adapted for the film Arrival.

Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham discussed the election with Margo Jefferson.

Melissa Holbrook Pierson wrote about Mary Oliver and Joyce Carol Oates and how they relate to Emerson.

Bethlehem Shoals on Leonard Cohen, at Hazlitt.

At Literary Hub, Dwyer Murphy wrote about MMA literature.

Ragnar Kjartansson talked art and ambition with The Creative Independent.

At Hazlitt, Tobias Carroll wrote about camping for the first time.

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