• Features

    public health

    How Adrien Proust—Father of Marcel—Helped Pioneer Global Public Health

    By Simon Schama  September 19, 2023
    Poems

    “Everyone’s An Expert At Something,” a Poem by Sam Sax

    By Sam Sax  September 19, 2023
    Chronic Illness

    The Politics of Chronic Illness Memoirs

    By Kate Roberts  September 19, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Betty Gilpin on Being In It For Big Feelings

    By Talk Easy  September 19, 2023
    Experimental Fiction

    Estranging English: Mandy-Suzanne Wong on Constructing New Literary Languages

    By Mandy-Suzanne Wong  September 19, 2023
    What to Watch

    38 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall

    By Emily Temple  September 19, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    Cleo Qian on the Differences Between Writing Poetry and Fiction

    By I'm a Writer But   September 19, 2023
    Keen On

    Kashmir Hill on One Company’s Attempt to End Privacy As We Know It

    By Keen On  September 19, 2023
    Novelists

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

    By Tracy Daugherty  September 18, 2023
    Mental Illness

    What’s Unreal is Real: Alicia Elliott on the Tired Trope of Madness in Fiction

    By Alicia Elliott  September 18, 2023
    Interview with a Poet

    Poet and Translator Dong Li on the “Common Tongue of Poetry”

    By Peter Mishler  September 18, 2023
    Libraries

    The Spy Who Shushed Me: How the Government Is Removing Our Right to Read in Private

    By Anthony Aycock  September 18, 2023
    Latin American Literature

    The Marvelous Real: Leonardo Padura on Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps

    By Leonardo Padura  September 18, 2023
    Media

    Recognition Chains: How Digital Platforms Influence What We Consume

    By Michèle Lamont  September 18, 2023
    Keen On

    Maria Ressa on Fighting for the Future

    By Keen On  September 18, 2023
    The History of Literature

    James Shapiro on Shakespeare and America

    By History of Literature  September 18, 2023
    First Draft

    James McBride on Going on Faith

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 18, 2023
    Write-minded

    Ghassan Zeineddine on What Short Stories Do That Novels Can’t

    By Memoir Nation   September 18, 2023
    Adaptations

    “Your Meals In Life Are Numbered:” On Trying (and Failing) in Hollywood

    By Terrell Tannen  September 15, 2023
    Overlooked Women

    In Praise of Midlife Heroines in Film and Fiction

    By Fran Littlewood  September 15, 2023
    Poetry

    “I Open the Window,” a Poem by Jane Hirshfield

    By Jane Hirshfield  September 15, 2023
    Reading Lists

    Art Books Extraordinaire: 10 of Phaidon’s Most Innovative Titles of the Past Century

    By Deborah Aaronson  September 15, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Kathleen Rooney on Writing Architecturally

    By Kathleen Rooney  September 15, 2023
    Reading Lists

    Making Formulas Fresh Again: A Reading List of Fantasy Tropes Reimagined

    By Hannah Kaner  September 15, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  September 15, 2023
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