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Enjoy Cracked Brain Podcast from the creative team behind Cracked Brain Productions. Listen in for behind the scenes stories of videos, appearances, AND MORE! Catch bonus episodes, where other creative individuals from around the world are interviewed.
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Facts, jokes, and more from the Internet’s leading comedy website, Cracked.com. Every week, host Alex Schmidt brings together comedians, authors, scientists, and Cracked staffers, to celebrate the awesome truth that being alive is more interesting than people think it is. Fill your week and your brain with hilarious, mind-blowing revelations that’ll make you the most interesting person in every room you’re in.
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Beyond the Prompt dives deep into the world of AI and its expanding impact on business and daily work. Hosted by Jeremy Utley of Stanford's d.school, alongside Henrik Werdelin, an entrepreneur known for starting BarkBox, prehype and other startups, each episode features conversations with innovators and leaders to uncover pragmatic stories of how organizations leverage AI to accelerate success. Learn creative strategies and actionable tactics you can apply right away as AI capabilities advan ...
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Volley.FM presents Did You Know. Listen to Sebastian and Peter and crack up learning a new fun fact every day. Did you know otters hold hands when they sleep or that the fortune cookie was invented in California? Perfect for stocking up your funny fact bank for that watercooler chat at the office.
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These conversations usually only happen in my head. (...and specifically in the middle of the night, because that’s when I come upon every inspired thought I’ve ever had. for some reason.) This podcast is my Digital Diary. In each episode, I will brain-dump, talk through, and share my perspective on a new topic relevant to my journey of navigating life in my 20s. And I’m Hannah, a 24-year-old just trying to figure out what any of us are *actually* supposed to be doing. Spoiler alert: I don’t ...
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Wash your dirty hands - grab a snack. This ain't your daddy's podcast. This is MIDDLE FINGER HAPPINESS. {work hard. live well. don't fuck with me.} The come-back is always stronger than the setback . Sharon Lee Zapata, award-winning speaker, writer, artist, author of Middle Finger Happiness and CEO [chief energy officer] The Zapata Group - - She has no eminence front just earbud paraphernalia you crave. : Ever been at the fork in the road? ...Where you think, "F*ck it, I have to improve my l ...
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Welcome to Cracking Addiction, the show that delves deep into the world of addiction medicine. Hosted by Addiction Medicine Specialist Dr Ferghal Armstrong, this podcast covers a broad range of addiction-related topics, from the science behind addiction to the various treatment options available. Each week, the hosts provide listeners with engaging and informative discussions on all aspects of addiction medicine. From alcohol and drug addiction to gambling addiction, they explore the various ...
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've been kidnapped by aliens dressed as cops. They moved me from their prison to a simulated hospital. I can leave any time, but they won't let me. If I don't escape, they'll keep me here forever. If I use the telephone, the phone company will sell my innermost secrets to the government. If I take the medicine they give me, my brain will be replaced with cotton. So yeah. I'm crazy.
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Welcome to 'Zen Brain: Exploring Mindfulness, Technology, and Authentic Living.' Dive deep with us as we unravel the synergy between cutting-edge technology and timeless mindfulness practices. Each episode offers a unique blend of expert insights, practical techniques, and enlightening conversations, fostering a balanced and enlightened approach to life's challenges. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a mindfulness seeker, or someone yearning for genuine connections, Zen Brain bridges the gap ...
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Art Works for Teachers

The Institute for Arts Integration and STEAM

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The Art Works for Teachers Podcast helps teachers crack the code of creativity and use it as a hidden advantage in the classroom. You will receive simple, yet innovative ideas for teaching math, reading and writing in and through the arts - while filling your own creative cup.
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The Brain Mechanics

The Brain Mechanics

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Have you ever wondered two people experience love differently? How about starting that tricky negotiation with the manager that never sees things your way? Perhaps you are trying to make sense of why your teacher never seems to cut you any slack? The Brain Mechanics is a collaboration between clinical neuropsychologist, Dr. Michelle Conover, and management consultant turned & amateur scientist, Bryce Brown, that brings a fun, engaging twist to the discussion of the brain and the psyche.
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Welcome to K8lyn Cracks The Code! I am covering all things health, wellness, and self development to help you become the best version of yourself. I also bring on the top entrepreneurs and ask them one thought provoking question to give you access into their brain that you can't find anywhere else. Let's get crackin' ;)
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The latest in-depth coverage covering the intersection of technology and culture will help you make sense of a world in constant transformation. Join us as we explore the ways technology is changing our lives.
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For ADHD {and ADHD-ish} business owners who live in Distraction City, with shiny object syndrome, and live life with other tendencies that keep us from doing our best work. You want a sustainable life. A work/home/school/family stability that WORKS, functions on good habits, systems, and approaches that set us up for immeasurable success both personally and professionally. With a mix of psychology, strategy and support (that only a bestie can give), The podcast formally known as My Biz Besti ...
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Your comedy pals at ”Little Tiny Brain” present an improvisational/conversational podcast. Three random facts are given each episode. We then act out scenes based on the facts and at the end of each episode we reveal which ”fact” was totally made up! It’s improv hilarity for your ears!
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It's the podcast you never knew you needed, but would never admit listening to! Jay Tilley, Becca Harney and Tice Rust are friends through the Washington, DC area theatre, improv and copslay scene. This new podcast will explore things they have in common - theatre, improv, cosplay, fitness, comics, movies and TV, and a wide variety of other nonsense. There will even be some fun games and special guests. We hope our podcast will be your new guilty pleasure! Tom Foolery and shenanigans will de ...
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The show’s mission is simple: To help you become the best version of yourself possible and in doing so make the world a better place. Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, and whatever you do, this is the show that is going to help you become the best version of yourself. Each episode you will hear from some of the most amazing, talented, and successful people on the planet who followed their passions and strive to help others. Join our movement to get a million people each and every day to ...
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Yellowfin Grouper, P.I.

Jed Feder, Matt Deitchman, and others

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A musical radio play for all ages! Yellowfin Grouper, P.I. is one of the most celebrated crime stoppers to grace the ocean floor. Dive in with Yellowfin and his friends as they crack open the sea's biggest cases. Water you waiting for? Written and created by Matt Deitchman and Jed Feder. Surf to YellowfinGrouperPI.com for more!
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StarTalk All-Stars

StarTalk All-Stars

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"I’m Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of StarTalk Radio. I’ve recruited a crack team of scientists and science educators to help me bring the universe down to Earth. They are… The StarTalk All-Stars." New episodes premiere Tuesday nights at 7pm ET.
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People Don't Talk About... Young Royals

Margaret Shiverick & Anton Maslowski

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Margaret and Anton undertake painstaking dissecctions of the media your friends are sick of hearing you talk about. Our first series tackles a show near and dear to our hearts (and the whole reason this podcasts exists), the Swedish Netflix original series Young Royals. Let's start a revolution, baby!
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Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) is a Malaysian comedian and writer while "Mentol Pecah" means "broken lightbulb". This podcast is where Muz brings his buddies over to help him break things open with his brain. Results vary. Don't worry about it. Love each other.
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Welcome to "It's Hard to Be a Leader," the podcast that delves deep into the complexities of leadership, equipping you with brain-based tools and strategies to navigate the toughest challenges faced by leaders like you. Join host Elaina Noell, a certified NLP practitioner and CEO & Author of Inspiring Accountability in the Workplace, as she tackles listeners' toughest questions and issues head-on. Gain practical strategies, thought-provoking questions, and insightful content from seasoned le ...
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Motoki Maxted and guests crack jokes and reveal both heartfelt and hilarious personal stories while poking fun at pop-culture. You’ll never know what to expect on this raw and uncut rollercoaster often featuring more relevant social media celebrities. Tune in on a weekly basis to hear Motoki and his friends expose themselves.
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Are You There, Midlife? It’s Me, Monica. | Balance Hormones Naturally in Perimenopause, Menopause for Women Over 40

Monica Topete | Holistic Health Coach | Perimenopause Educator | Hormone Imbalance Survivor

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The Go-to Podcast for Midlife Women Who Want To Balance Hormones Naturally Ugh. I feel so bloated. I’m retaining more water than the Hoover Dam. What? Not another pimple? It’s like puberty all over again! Sleep? What’s that like? (I forget.:<) Umm, I just turned 40….. Aren’t I too young for this?!? — Hello Friend. (Can I call you “friend”? ‘Cuz we’re already friends in my head:) Welcome to Are You There, Midlife? It’s Me, Monica. I’m Monica Lane Topete, Certified Holistic Health Coach and Ho ...
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Lab Notes

Allen Institute

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The 21st century is the century of biology. Discoveries made in the lab today will shape the cures of tomorrow. Hosted by award-winning science writer Rachel Tompa and creator Rob Piercy, Lab Notes pulls back the curtain on the human stories behind headline-grabbing scientific studies and breakthroughs. Lab Notes is a production of the Allen Institute.
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I'm your host, Kendra Beavis. I'm bringing in creative thinkers to share their insights on mental toughness, tenacity and their journey to their best selves. My mission is to share these inspiring stories to give you the courage and resources to live your best life. I can't wait for you to dive into this season! So grab a cup of coffee and enjoy. Welcome to the tribe. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tribeofunicorns/support
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Ketamine Insights

Molly Dunn & Lynn Schneider

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Fun conversations about therapeutic ketamine and mental health. **No medical advice** We give practical tips from a patient's perspective and discuss the more profound insights people can gain from their experiences with ketamine and other psychedelic medicines. Co-hosts Molly Dunn (patient) and Lynn Schneider (ally) are old friends who usually live on opposite sides of the world. Molly, a disabled writer from Chicago with treatment resistant depression and other chronic illnesses, has been ...
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Sudhir Breaks the Internet

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

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The Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh studies exclusive worlds by embedding himself — with a crack-selling gang, sex workers, the teenage children of billionaires, and most recently, at the highest levels of companies at the vanguard of the digital revolution, including Facebook and Twitter. And now he’s hosting a podcast. In each episode, Venkatesh will reveal what he learned in Silicon Valley and talk with the people he met along the way who are building and running the digi ...
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We break down ideas, strategies, and tactics to help you improve your mindset, overcome burnout, excel in leadership, prioritize your well-being, get unstuck, de-stress, and thrive in your career. If you are a doctor, nurse, paramedic, medical student, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, administrator, or even tangentially related to healthcare, this show is made for you. Hosted by emergency physician and executive coach Rob Orman, MD. Don't just suck it up, think differently.
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Hear the untold stories of mind-blowing achievements in science and tech. “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent and six-time Emmy winner David Pogue takes you behind the scenes into the creation stories of the world’s greatest advances and the people behind them. From transportation, food, space, internet, and health, creators reveal their inspirations and roadblocks they encountered in bringing their breakthroughs to the public. Hear all-new episodes of the award-winning Unsung Science podcast ...
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The Thoughts About That podcast is a leisure - but no small talk space and lots of space for oversharing. It’s a safe space to discuss coffee conversations, help people laugh, deal with boredom and help people feel less alone. My dream childhood aspiration was to become an actress. I love telling and sharing stories of everyday life and sharing our internal dialogue in a mix of guest and solo episodes.
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The Big Chew

Zachary Nix & Noah Reeves

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We recognize that many people don’t have over three hours daily to catch up on the latest podcasts discussions. Yet this is where all the information is available and unfiltered. So, we’ve created a solution: we condense the most impactful parts of these extensive discussions into a concise format. Think of our podcast as your personal highlight reel, offering you the essence of top conversations from today and years gone by, all in manageable, bite-sized segments.
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A new rule from the US Federal Trade Commission invalidates most noncompete agreements, frequently used to bind tech workers. It could unlock higher wages, and more entrepreneurship and innovation. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m…
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Alexander Statman's book A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science (U Chicago Press, 2023) is a revisionist history of the idea of progress reveals an unknown story about European engagement with Chinese science. The Enlightenment gave rise not only to new ideas of progress but consequential debates about them. Did distant times …
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Boubacar N’Diaye's book Mauritania's Colonels: Political Leadership, Civil-Military Relations and Democratization (Routledge, 2017), the result of more than a decade of research, focuses on the socio-political dynamics and civil-military relations in a little studied country: Mauritania, located in the troubled North-western part of Africa. Boubaca…
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Contemplative Studies and Jainism: Meditation, Prayer, and Veneration (Routledge, 2023) is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth of scholarly viewpoints that reflect both the variegation in terms of spiritual practices within the Jain traditions as well as the Jain herme…
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Today’s book is: Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration (Common Threads Press, 2024), by Dr. Isabella Rosner, which considers how for centuries, people have stitched in good times and in bad, finding strength in the needle moving in and out of fabric. Stitching Freedom explores the embroidery made in prisons and mental health hospitals — t…
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Based on extensive research into weekly rural publishers and rural readers, Reviving Rural News: Transforming the Business Model of Community Journalism in the US and Beyond (Routledge, 2024) outlines a mode of practice by which small publications can stay financially sound and combat the rise of "news deserts." This book argues that publishers mus…
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Danielle Amir Jackson is a Memphis-born writer and critic, and the editor-in-chief of the Oxford American. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Vulture, Bookforum, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Criterion Collection, and elsewhere. Honey’s Grill: Sex, Freedom, and Women of the Blues, her first book, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. …
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Although Katie Kitamura feels free when she writes—free from the “soup of everyday life,” from the political realities that weigh upon her, and even at times from the limits of her own thinking—she is keenly aware of the unfreedoms her novels explore. Katie, author of the award-winning Intimacies (2021), talks with critic Alexander Manshel about th…
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Temeko Ricardson grew up in the Protestant American tradition; she was a “GPK” (grand-pastor-kid) from a family of church leaders. She has been thinking about Christianity and social issues—failure to include God’s people into His Church, fractured families, homelessness—and how to weave out society together and spread the Gospel. She’s an entrepre…
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Anthony Valerio's novel Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer (Grailing Press, 2024) tells the story of Walter Michael Gregory. Call him Wally. Walter Michael Gregory is a literary rogue peddling his prose and amours around 1970s Manhattan. He talks like Frank Sinatra sings, he writes truly, he is a lover par excellence, and he will charm you wit…
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In April 1942, at least half a million people fled the city of Madras, now known as Chennai. The reason? The British, after weeks of growing unease about the possibility of a Japanese invasion, finally recommended that people leave the city. In the tense, uncertain atmosphere of 1942, many people took that advice to heart–and fled. The Japanese, of…
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In this episode Amber Hawley and Dr. Liz Slonena delve into the fascinating world of mindful hypnosis and retreats tailored for entrepreneurs with ADHD. They explore the neuroscience behind creativity, stress management, and hypnosis, and discuss authentic ways to overcome common entrepreneurial hurdles like perfectionism and fear of rejection. Thi…
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Dr Ferghal Armstrong addresses the often-underestimated influence of diet on addiction recovery and mental health. By contrasting Australian Dietary guidelines with the detriments of ultra-processed "junk" food, Ferghal uncovers the profound impact that food choices have on our overall health and capacity to overcome addiction. Exploring various di…
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In this colorful book, historian Sudev Sheth traces how a family of diamond dealers deployed wealth to play off political leaders and survive the collapse of the Mughal Empire. The story highlights the unique role played by Jain and Hindu bankers in the daily affairs of Islamic, Hindu, and early colonial forms of Indian government. Bankrolling Empi…
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The global battle among the three dominant digital powers―the United States, China, and the European Union―is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere of influence in the digital world. In Digital Empires: The Global Ba…
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In this evocative, insightful memoir, a leading voice in Middle Eastern Studies revisits his childhood in war-torn Lebanon and his family’s fascinating history, coming to terms with trauma and desire. Water on Fire: A Memoir of War (Other Press, 2024) tells a story of immigration that starts in a Beirut devastated by the Lebanese Civil War (1975–90…
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Democracies in Europe and the world over are grappling with the challenges posed by social media. In this episode, Charlotte Galpin and Verena Brändle talk with host Licia Cianetti about the multiple ways in which the online and the offline intersect in contemporary democracies, and how the engagement-maximising business model of privately owned so…
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J.N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism (Oxford University Press, 2024) describes the work of one of the most important and under-studied theologians in the history of Christianity. In the late 1820s, John Nelson Darby abandoned his career as a priest in the Church of Ireland to become one of the principal leaders of a small but rapidly growi…
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Inspired by the legends of Amazon women warriors told by ancient Greek historian Herodotus and evidenced by recent archaeological discoveries in Central Asia, Akmaral (Regal House Publishing, 2024) is the latest historical fiction novel by author Judith Lindbergh. Through the story of its eponymous main character, a nomadic warrior woman living in …
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Offering a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the key issues at the heart of the study of German Fascism, Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany 1930-1945 (Routledge, 2013) brings together a selection of Geoff Eley’s most important writings on Nazism and the Third Reich. Featuring a wealth of revised, updat…
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In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with Matt Qvortrup (Coventry University) to discuss his new book with CEU Press entitled, The Political Brain: The Emergence of Neuropolitics (CEU Press, 2024). Putting the “science” back into political science, The Political Brain shows how fMRI-…
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In Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema (University of California Press, 2024), Dr. Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness. She considers film cycles from five distinct historical moments that show characters who are unhomed and placeless, mobile rather than fixed—…
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Albert Brooks: Interviews (UP of Mississippi, 2024) brings together fourteen profiles of and conversations with Brooks (b. 1947), in which he contemplates, expounds upon, and hilariously jokes about the connections between his show business upbringing, an ambivalence about the film industry, the nature of fame and success, and the meaning and purpo…
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A stunning debut collection of fiction and creative nonfiction-- irreverent and unglorified; loving and tender; uncomfortable and inconvenient--by a Ukrainian writer currently fighting for his country in Kyiv. Includes the celebrated title story "The Ukraine," which was published in the New Yorker in 2022. The Ukraine (Seven Stories Press, 2024; tr…
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