How Having a Writing Community Stimulates Creativity

How Having a Writing Community Stimulates Creativity

Mary Gannon and Kevin Larimer on Finding Your People

By Kevin Larimer and Mary Gannon | April 7, 2020

Finding Permission to Fail in<br> <em>A Confederacy of Dunces</em>

Finding Permission to Fail in
A Confederacy of Dunces

Mary Pauline Lowry on Its Grotesque Charms

By Mary Pauline Lowry | April 7, 2020

What Two Imaginary Cats Tell Us About Who We Are (and How We're Different)

What Two Imaginary Cats Tell Us About Who We Are (and How We're Different)

Marie Mutsuki Mockett on the Chaos of Feline Energy

By Marie Mutsuki Mockett | April 7, 2020

A Pandemic is Not a War (and Other Consequences of Male Inferiority)

A Pandemic is Not a War (and Other Consequences of Male Inferiority)

Nathaniel Popkin on the Sad and Stupid Men Who're Making Things Worse

By Nathaniel Popkin | April 6, 2020

This is How You Write a Collaborative Essay

This is How You Write a Collaborative Essay

Patrick Madden (and 5 Other Writers) Try an Experiment

By Patrick Madden | April 1, 2020

Breyten Breytenbach Asks What if Exile Itself Were a Home?

Breyten Breytenbach Asks What if Exile Itself Were a Home?

On the Uncitizens of the the Middle World

By Breyten Breytenbach | April 1, 2020

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Aminatta Forna Diverges From the Homeschool Lesson Plan with Chinua Achebe

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A People’s History of the Poetry Workshop

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Mark Nowak on the Workshops of the Watts Rebellion

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Italy's Answer to Coronavirus is a Classic Published Almost 200 Years Ago

Italy's Answer to Coronavirus is a Classic Published Almost 200 Years Ago

Alessio Perrone Reports from Milan

By Alessio Perrone | March 19, 2020

In the Academy, Plagiarism is the Sin Above All Sins. That's a Problem.

In the Academy, Plagiarism is the Sin Above All Sins. That's a Problem.

Nicholas Delbanco on Criminals, Copyists, and Creative Coincidence

By Nicholas Delbanco | March 19, 2020

Can We Talk About How Austen's Characters Tend to Blur Together?

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Emily Hodgson Anderson on Jane and Jane and Jane

By Emily Hodgson Anderson | March 18, 2020

How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him

How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him

"I regard such things as premature impertinences."

By Emily Temple | March 17, 2020

Talking to Poets About Their Love of Crossword Puzzles

Talking to Poets About Their Love of Crossword Puzzles

Adrienne Raphel Talks to Alice Notely, Fatima Asghar, and More

By Adrienne Raphel | March 17, 2020

What Happens to Writing When We Stop Pretending Anything Makes Sense?

What Happens to Writing When We Stop Pretending Anything Makes Sense?

Ysabelle Cheung on Coronavirus, Hong Kong, and Fragmentation

By Ysabelle Cheung | March 16, 2020

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