Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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May 11, 2013

Neureligion

By Amit Majmudar

  There is very little (if any) variability in the brains of human beings regarding cortical localization. That is, the motor cortex responsible for, say, left arm movement, is reliably […]

December 26, 2011

Mythistory; or Against Literalism

By Amit Majmudar

The last post, which ended with a note how myth and scripture are a foundation of literature (and, I should add, art and music), got me thinking about the preservation […]