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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Storytelling skills are not just for entertainment — practical exercises used by the cream of Hollywood can transform your work-life.
Many beloved fantasy adventures take place in worlds that bear a striking resemblance to our own.
Joseph Campbell argued that nearly every myth can be boiled down to a hero’s journey. Was he right?
Narnia and early Middle-earth were pancake-esque — but their creators took differing views on de-globalization.
Rejecting romanticism, these famous paintings depict war as it really is: sadistic and senseless.
Clear communication is good for business and life — but compelling communication can take you to another level.
Ignoring the legacy of William Shakespeare is difficult for any writer, let alone one as quintessentially English as "Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien.
Take a closer look before judging a book by its title.
“Like real dreams, it does not explain, does not complete its sequences," film critic Roger Ebert once wrote about "Mulholland Drive."
"Painfully forced" is how one contemporary critic described Fitzgerald's writing style.
"Tristram Shandy" trolled its way to fame.
Many were expecting extremism survivor and free speech advocate Salman Rushdie to take home the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Annie Ernaux beat him to it.
Detective fiction reveals how a particular society or time period looks at crime and criminal justice.
Just as storylines make sense only when you have the context of the beginning and the end, listeners need to understand the impetus for why the album was even made.
By taking Satan out of the religious context, storytellers explored the nature of sin in new ways.
According to literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, Dostoevsky's talents were on par with those of William Shakespeare.
For the first time, I genuinely enjoyed the new series. There’s been one question that’s bothered me in every episode since Star Trek: Discovery began: why would anyone want to be […]