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A Tour of the Fantasy World of the Books of My Childhood and Adolescence
Dear Republic,
The ever-interesting takes us into the memory palace of his childhood reading. This piece, by the way, is nicely accompanied by ’s on worldbuilding. We’re basically always down for pieces like these that trace your history...
Northern Lights
Dear Republic,
We're delighted to have the wise and wonderful back in our pages, where he has previously written on veterans, the men who lost their lives building dams, and Jung. This piece reaches even deeper.
-ROL
That Tuesday, I ope...
Flexible Fanatics
Dear Republic,
Our ration of work by continues with this piece, originally submitted for our “hill to die on” series, which beautifully braids together a Spanish romance with Azerbaijan’s greatest novel.
-ROL
FLEXIBLE FANATICS: ON ALI...
This Week at The Republic of Letters
Dear Republic,
We’re excited to have launched our Writers’ Workshop this past week. For anyone who would like to join going forward, it’s Tuesdays at 12pm EST. Here is the Zoom link. Passcode: 713152. To join, you should be a paying ROL m...
Don't Waste Your Crazy
Dear Republic,
Romance/Romanticism Week comes to an end with siding very much against romance.
-ROL
DON’T WASTE YOUR CRAZY
I find it upsetting when people who are clearly curious and artistically inclined choose to expend that energy i...
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The Republic of Letters is a hub for literary and cultural writing; and a new, genuinely democratic type of digital publication.
John Julius Reel, author of My Half Orange: A Story of Love and Language in Seville (Tortoise Books, 2023), currently collaborates with Canal Sur Radio (Andalusian Public Radio) and has two YouTube channels: Spanglish in a Minute and Book Rants.
COM-POSIT is a newsletter of aphoristic essays, critical–speculative prose, reviews, and occasional fictions.
Award-winning novelist and naturalist living in east Tennessee. Marine veteran. Next novel, THE WORLD ITSELF, forthcoming in 2027 from Regal House.
AKA J.W. Yablonsky / Bylines in Apocalypse Confidential, Muleskinner Journal, Republic of Letters, Magazine Non Grata / Editor & Contributor @ Kindness Report
Writing at the intersection of working-class rage, female rage, and the rural gothic. MFA from Brown / PhD Denver.
Stephen Akey is a memoirist and essayist who lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of Raccoon Love, Culture Fever, and College.
Omnivorous reader. Words in The Metropolitan Review, The Republic of Letters, Beyond the Bookshelf, Seeing Through Film, and more.
Chief content officer at Full Focus. Former VP of editorial and acquisitions at Thomas Nelson. Author of several books, including The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future.
Damon Falke is the author of, among other works, The Scent of a Thousand Rains, Now at the Uncertain Hour, By Way of Passing, and Koppmoll (film). He lives in northern Norway.
Black coffee, neat whiskey, trying to finish my novel at 5am before my toddler wakes up.
Sam Kahn writes the Substack Castalia.
Bethany Bruno is a Floridian author and amateur historian. Her work has appeared in more than ninety literary journals and magazines. www.bethanybrunowriter.com.
American in America. Former ex-English teacher.
Writer, illustrator, co-founder of a tech company. Former fundamentalist and ashamed former Zionist. 3 teens, 2 cats, maker of pickles. Designer for afightworthhaving.com, go sign up.
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