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If You Want an Apocalypse, Head to the Great Lakes
Dear Republic,
Scene Week continues with a region that you don’t normally associate with scenes but is, on the other hand, apocalypse-ready.
-ROL
IF YOU WANT AN APOCALYPSE, HEAD TO THE GREAT LAKES
The Great Lakes region is vast, but w...
Sondheim and Stoppard
Elaine Stritch, Harold Prince, Jane Russell. Still from the Broadway set of Company, 1970-72
Dear Republic,
Today we have an in-depth reappraisal of two giants of 20th century theater.
-ROL
SONDHEIM AND STOPPARD
Giants in the...
Moving to New York
Dear Republic,
It’s Scene Week at The Republic of Letters, so naturally enough we start with the great and his dispatch from the New York-that-was.
-ROL
MOVING TO NEW YORK
This was 2016. I was living in Portland. I got to know this you...
This Week at the Republic of Letters
Dear Republic,
People don’t seem to be very interested in recognizing their friends’ achievements lol. So let’s push this contest out a few days:
We want to hear about good things that are happening in the world, exemplary people, and...
Reading Philip Traylen's Diary
Dear Republic,
It’s Self-Referential Week at The Republic of Letters — LitStack celebrating itself. And what would Self-Referential Week on LitStack be without a review of Philip Traylen’s diary?
-ROL
READING PHILIP TRAYLEN’S DIARY
Se...
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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.
Author of a memoir and a poetry collection. Essays in Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Aruban-Argentine writer and visual artist. His articles, poetry and fiction pieces previously appeared in Berfrois, Nueva York Poetry Review, the Drunken Boat, Anomaly. Published poetry collection Mare Nostrum Costa Nostra (Hesterglock 2019)
Blake Nelson's many novels include GIRL, RECOVERY ROAD and PARANOID PARK (adapted to film by Gus Van Sant). He's also written for The New York Times, Details and Conde Nast Traveler.
I write about literature, film, culture...and whatever else I'm interested in.
Author of The Unmapping (novel published June 2025). Writes on Substack about noticing things. Writing in Metropolitan Review, Romanticon, Republic of Letters, Beyond the Bookshelf, and more. www.denisesrobbins.com
Dog lover, arcana besotted, woods wanderer, bookish.
[email protected] / FKA Klaus Zynski / Bylines in Apocalypse Confidential, Muleskinner Journal, Republic of Letters, Magazine Non Grata, Bookends Review / Editor & Contributor @ Kindness Report
Alexander Kaplan is an unemployed English instructor who lives with his wife and two children in Richmond, Virginia.
I’ll be adding content some day, God willing. Most likely about literature, books I’m reading, etc.
Author: The Digital Reversal. || The Viral Inquisitor. || Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror. || Postjournalism and the death of newspapers. || Human as media. // I study media and everything.
PhD candidate and religious educator writing on gender, faith, and vampires. Allegedly “schoolmarmish,” "charmingly labyrinthine," and a “matriarch of genderstack.” Become an “esoteric Karnivore” today!
Sci fi writer
Writer, Theater-goer, Napper.
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