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WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Her Writing Process

WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Her Writing Process

“I am not one of those writers that hates writing.”

By Arwen Curry | October 11, 2023

The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson

The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson

From Patrick Weil's Cundill Prize-Nominated The Madman in the White House

By Patrick Weil | October 9, 2023

Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

"If I do my job well, it will ring true."

By Anne Eekhout | October 5, 2023

WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing Characters of Color

WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing Characters of Color

“Most of the fantasies I read as a child, all the good guys were white.”

By Arwen Curry | October 4, 2023

How Alexei Ratmansky Brought A New Kind of Ballet to America

How Alexei Ratmansky Brought A New Kind of Ballet to America

Marina Harss on the Ukrainian Choreographer's Clever Subversion of Artistic Expectations

By Marina Harss | October 3, 2023

WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Creating the World of Earthsea

WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Creating the World of Earthsea

“Obviously, to me, words do make magic.”

By Arwen Curry | September 27, 2023

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“To Be A Writer, You Must Write”: How Joan Didion Became Joan Didion

By Evelyn McDonnell | September 26, 2023

Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, "Unerring Stylist"

By Hermione Lee | September 26, 2023

How Bayard Rustin Inspired Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nonviolent Activism

By Jonathan Eig | September 25, 2023

How America's Natural Beauty Called Generations of Women to Action

How America's Natural Beauty Called Generations of Women to Action

Tiya Miles on the Creative and Political Power of the Great Outdoors

By Tiya Miles | September 21, 2023

WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing Fantasy as a Young Girl

WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing Fantasy as a Young Girl

“I was free in a way that I think it’s always been rare for a child to be free.”

By Arwen Curry | September 20, 2023

Art Imitates Life: On the Making of Larry McMurtry, The Writer

Art Imitates Life: On the Making of Larry McMurtry, The Writer

Tracy Daugherty on the Chronicler of the American West

By Tracy Daugherty | September 18, 2023

First Lady of Space: How Sally Ride Became A Household Name Overnight

First Lady of Space: How Sally Ride Became A Household Name Overnight

Loren Grush on the Media Circus Surrounding America's First Women Astronauts

By Loren Grush | September 14, 2023

Did J.D. Salinger Wield Copyright as Self-Protection?

Did J.D. Salinger Wield Copyright as Self-Protection?

"Copyright protections can stop a work from being copied, pirated, poached. They can't stop it from being misunderstood."

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 30, 2023

Remembering William Stafford, Whose Poetic Region Was All the World

Remembering William Stafford, Whose Poetic Region Was All the World

Steve Paul on the Enduring Memory of One of America's Greatest Contemporary Poets

By Steve Paul | August 28, 2023

Leonora Carrington's Days as a Debutante and Art Student

Leonora Carrington's Days as a Debutante and Art Student

Joanna Moorhead on the Artist's Teenage Years and Relationship with Max Ernst

By Joanna Moorhead | August 22, 2023

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