J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”

By Tamar SchwartzJune 11, 2026June 11, 2026 Literature, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children” By Maria Popova on the Brain Pickings webhsite.

Darryl Pinckney, The Art of Nonfiction

By Tamar SchwartzMay 29, 2026May 29, 2026 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: Darryl Pinckney, The Art of Nonfiction No. 15. Interviewed by Sam Needleman in the Paris Review Issue 255, Spring 2026.

Silence, Solitude, and the Art of Surrender

By Tamar SchwartzMay 25, 2026May 25, 2026 Literature

Click Here to Read: Silence, Solitude, and the Art of Surrender: Pico Iyer on Finding the World in a Benedictine Monastery By Maria Popova on the Marginalian website.

VOICES FROM ROOM – Close to Home

By Tamar SchwartzMay 22, 2026May 22, 2026 Literature, Psychoanalysis

Episode 54 of Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action, “Close to Home with Shari Appollon” is now available wherever you listen to podcasts.
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This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Shari Appollon, a Haitian-American psychoanalytic candidate at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Apollon explores how her psychoanalytic training has complicated her vision of her family’s Continue reading VOICES FROM ROOM – Close to Home

Our narrative prison

By Tamar SchwartzMay 7, 2026May 7, 2026 Film, Literature, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Our narrative prison: The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell? by Eliane Glaser on the Aeon website.

Le Carceri d’Invenzione, plate IX: The Giant Wheel Image: Szépművészeti Múzeum Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

A New Kirkus Review of Stories of Holocaust

By Tamar SchwartzApril 30, 2026April 30, 2026 Books, Film, History, Literature

Click Here to Read: A New Kirkus Review of Stories of Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal, Volume 1: On Stage and in Concert edited by Karen Berman, PhD and Gail Humphries, PhD

Click Here to Purchase: Stories of Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal, Volume 1: On Stage and in Concert edited by Karen Berman, PhD and Gail Humphries, PhD from IPBooks.net

Click Here to Purchase: Stories of Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal, Volume 2: On Screen and in the Gallery edited by Karen Berman, PhD and Gail Humphries PhD

Walter de la Mare (25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956)

By Tamar SchwartzApril 29, 2026April 29, 2026 Literature, Poetry Monday

Click Here to Read: Walter de la Mare (25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956): Master of quiet mystery and haunted imagination by Robert Goodman on his Spoken Word Poetry Substack on April 29, 2026

Portrait of Walter de la Mare by Sir William Rothenstein, from a collection of twelve portraits. Image: William Rothenstein (1872–1945). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.