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Reading Susan Sontag in Paris

Reading Susan Sontag in Paris

Or, How to Write About a City Just as Beautiful as Everyone Says It is

By Lori Brister | May 26, 2017

Words Can Erase and Distort: An Interview with Madeleine Thien

Words Can Erase and Distort: An Interview with Madeleine Thien

When language is in conflict with the very things we need it for

By David Chariandy | May 26, 2017

All Writing is a Kind of Realism

All Writing is a Kind of Realism

In Conversation with Rodrigo Fresán, author of The Invented Part

By Literary Hub | May 26, 2017

"Poultry?" No, Poetry. On Moving From Verse to Memoir

Chris Forhan on Working in the Slow Idle of Prose After Racing With Poetry

By Chris Forhan | May 25, 2017

On the Autofiction of Conrad Aiken, Unsung American Modernist

On the Autofiction of Conrad Aiken, Unsung American Modernist

On Freud, Language, and the Topography of Consciousness

By Conor Higgins | May 25, 2017

Jamaica Kincaid on How to Live and How to Write

Jamaica Kincaid on How to Live and How to Write

"You can't have too much slutdom, I say."

By Emily Temple | May 25, 2017

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Virginia Woolf: There Are Way Too Many Personal Essays Out There

By Lorraine Berry | May 24, 2017

In a 12th-Century Iranian Poem, a Vision of Solidarity We Need Today

By Theodore McCombs | May 24, 2017

Vera Pavlova Writes Poems to Be Read By the Light of a Single Match

By Peter Mishler | May 24, 2017

A Crash Course in YA Taught Me How To Write

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Katherine Heiny on Learning Plot, Discipline, and How to Finish a Book

By Katherine Heiny | May 24, 2017

We Need the Lives of Others Now More Than Ever

We Need the Lives of Others Now More Than Ever

On the Expansive Reading and Insights of Tony Judt

By Veronica Esposito | May 23, 2017

On Bias, Clickbait, and the Future of Journalism

On Bias, Clickbait, and the Future of Journalism

Insight and Advice from Staffers at The Washington Post

By Emily Temple | May 22, 2017

Edan Lepucki on Dick Pics, California, and Motherhood

Edan Lepucki on Dick Pics, California, and Motherhood

The Author of Woman No. 17, in Conversation with Bethanne Patrick

By Bethanne Patrick | May 22, 2017

7 Questions for Ian Buruma, New Editor of <em>the New York Review of Books</em>

7 Questions for Ian Buruma, New Editor of the New York Review of Books

"Go somewhere, physically or mentally, where others have not been"

By Emily Temple | May 22, 2017

The Wisdom of Sendak: Children Are Wild, Honest, Immoral Beings

The Wisdom of Sendak: Children Are Wild, Honest, Immoral Beings

On the Weird Kingdoms and Kinship of Maurice Sendak and Ralph Eugene Meatyard

By Buzz Poole | May 22, 2017

Americans in Search of Utopia

Americans in Search of Utopia

19th-Century Experiments in Perfection

By Betsy Hartmann | May 22, 2017

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