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From Allen Funt to Donald Trump, author Emily Nussbaum explains how reality TV has blurred the lines between, well, reality and TV.
“The only requisite for nonfiction is that it’s true," says Nathan Thrall, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama."
Self-help often distills philosophical ideas for the modern ear. Sometimes, its better to go back to the source.
For J.R.R. Tolkien, the single most important element of a fairy tale was the dramatic reversal of misfortune in the story's ending.
How can "you" move on when the old "you" is gone?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The Danish philosopher's simple paradox — living forwards while looking backwards — can be translated into golden business insights.
Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.
Why the best entrepreneurs should be more Obi-Wan Kenobi than Luke Skywalker.
It's good to be a wallflower. But sometimes, you need to show yourself off a bit.
The philosopher Skye C. Cleary explores what being authentically happy looks like in a world where so many can't be.
From Nick Carraway to Charles Marlow, these side characters offered truths their scene-stealing protagonists couldn't.
How heavy is the mask that you wear?
“Dune: Part One” screenwriter Eric Roth spoke with Big Think about the challenges of bringing Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic to the big screen.
Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.
Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!
How to say, "In many ways, Proust is similar to Joyce" and get away with it.
Omer Bartov, who spent decades studying the unspeakable horrors of genocide, shares how his studies have impacted his own mental health.
With great power comes retcon responsibility.
See the world through the eyes of a horse — or a cake pan.
Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?
The answer may lie in the power to see far, far beyond yourself.
The world’s “most produced living playwright” wins out over other contestants, including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood.
Want to write a time-travel story? Do so at your own risk.
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a medieval airship!
“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed," advised Stoic philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius. He had a point.
The One Ring has its own agency and sentience — and it opens up a wonderful philosophy of things beyond our comprehension.
Pure cinema is about removing redundancy so that even the smallest detail serves a purpose in relation to the bigger picture.
Explore how belief shapes destiny, from Oedipus Rex to modern geopolitics.