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An Emptiness Yet to Come

By José Mármol translated by Nathalie Handal, with Eileen O’Connor

The Sad Ballad of Wyckoff

By José Mármol translated by Nathalie Handal, with Eileen O’Connor

The Harvest

By Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler

Anna Bruno: Suspense, Secular Gods, and Scandal in an Elite Catholic School

Maria Kuznetsova Interviews Anna Bruno

Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman is an American writer, physicist, and social entrepreneur. Lightman has served on the faculties of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT. His essays and articles have appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Salon, and many other publications. His novels include Einstein's Dreams, an international bestseller, and The Diagnosis: A Novel, a finalist for the National Book Award. Essays from his recent book The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew were chosen as best essays of the year by the New York Times and featured on NPR. In 2005, Lightman founded the Harpswell Foundation, whose mission is to empower a new generation of women leaders in Cambodia.
The Boundaries of Nature Essay Bodies & Nature

Splitting the Moon

By Alan Lightman September 15, 2015

Boundaries of Nature: A physicist considers the appeal of miracles.

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