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Maggie Smith on Embracing Imperfection, in Life and Art

Maggie Smith on Embracing Imperfection, in Life and Art

“The mistake, in fact, is a gift. The break, or breakdown, allows for a breakthrough.”

By Maggie Smith | April 4, 2025

Memory, Care, Protection: Crystal Hana Kim on the Many Uses of Food

Memory, Care, Protection: Crystal Hana Kim on the Many Uses of Food

“To pay attention to the meal in front of you is to commit your hope and faith.”

By Crystal Hana Kim | April 4, 2025

Exploring the Traumas of the Armenian Genocide

Exploring the Traumas of the Armenian Genocide

Nancy Kricorian on Memorializing Her Armenian Grandmother in a Novel

By Nancy Kricorian | April 4, 2025

In Which a Couple of Actual Literary Assholes Make an Appearance

In Which a Couple of Actual Literary Assholes Make an Appearance

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Literary Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | April 3, 2025

More Than Just a Toy: What an Old Dollhouse Taught Me About Storytelling and Family

More Than Just a Toy: What an Old Dollhouse Taught Me About Storytelling and Family

Elise Hooper: “In a world that feels increasingly troubling and out of control, the dollhouse is where my mother and I are at our best together.”

By Elise Hooper | April 3, 2025

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

Anthony Giardina Explores “Advertisements for Myself” and a Controversial Author’s Legacy

By Anthony Giardina | April 2, 2025

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Dancing on the Page: Sulaiman Addonia on Writing in the Footsteps of Pina Bausch

Dancing on the Page: Sulaiman Addonia on Writing in the Footsteps of Pina Bausch

“I could sense the freedom, yet I didn’t dare to march towards it.”

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How Tennis Helped Me Manage the Competitive Beast That Was Ruining My Writing

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Finding Balance Between Drive and Acceptance

By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya | March 27, 2025

Earthquake Anxiety: <br>Living—and Writing—in Fear of the Big One

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Emma Pattee on Capturing the Human Feeling of Disaster

By Emma Pattee | March 27, 2025

Poet, Mystic, Warrior, Visionary: Reimagining the Life and Art of an Aztec Ruler Lost in Myth

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Ilan Stavans Resurrects Nezahualcóyotl from Fragments of Fact and Fiction

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Sabrina Imbler on the Power of Collectivity

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In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

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