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From a list of Thai ghosts, compiled by Andrew Alan Johnson, an assistant professor at Yale-NUS College in Singapore and the author of Ghosts of the New City, published last…

God Lives on Lemon Street

by Scott Cheshire,

An ex–Jehovah’s Witness visits Watchtower headquarters

Christopher Beha on Arts and Entertainments

by Jesse Barron,

Christopher Beha discusses sex tapes as literary vehicle, the celebrity impulse, and the problematic absence of religion in American literature

Sara Jeannette Duncan’s “The Ordination of Asoka” (1903)

by Jeff Sharlet,

A story

Jeff Sharlet on Radiant Truths

by Sam Kestenbaum,

Jeff Sharlet on his collection of essential dispatches, reports, confessions, and other essays on American belief

Mary McCarthy’s “Artists in Uniform” (1953)

by Jeff Sharlet,

“He actually said these awful things. But the story is McCarthy’s arrangement of the colonel’s utterance of the words and of her changing perception of their meaning.”

The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

by Trevor Quirk,

Alan Lightman on the theory of everything, technology as mediator of human experience, and empathizing with the religious impulse

Living with a Wild God: A Conversation with Barbara Ehrenreich

by Ryann Liebenthal,

Barbara Ehrenreich on writing, social activism, and the possible existence of a mystical Other

Demon Camp: A Soldier’s Exorcism

by Elisabeth Sherman,

Jennifer Percy on lyricism in nonfiction, the demons of American veterans, and circumventing expected narratives of PTSD

Thy Kingdom Plumb

From “Holy Springs and Holy Water: Underestimated Sources of Illness?” published last year in the Journal of Water and Health.

Darling: A Conversation with Richard Rodriguez

by Emily Stokes,

Richard Rodriguez on the essay as biography of an idea, the relationship between gay men’s liberation and women’s liberation, and the writerly impulse to give away secrets

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