“To My Teacher,” a Poem by Jean Valentine

“To My Teacher,” a Poem by Jean Valentine

From the Collection “Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine”

By Jean Valentine | April 18, 2024

The PEN Awards and World Voices Festival Are on the Brink of Collapse

The PEN Awards and World Voices Festival Are on the Brink of Collapse

"We cannot, in good faith, align with an organization that has shown such blatant disregard of our collective values."

By Dan Sheehan | April 17, 2024

How a 19th-Century German Anthropologist Planted the Roots for Nazi Racial Theories

How a 19th-Century German Anthropologist Planted the Roots for Nazi Racial Theories

Adam Kuper on Gustav Klemm and the Fraught History of Cultural Institutions in Europe

By Adam Kuper | April 17, 2024

Creativity and Cuervo: On Growing Up in My Family’s Liquor Store

Creativity and Cuervo: On Growing Up in My Family’s Liquor Store

From Eddie Ahn’s Graphic Memoir “Advocate”

By Eddie Ahn | April 17, 2024

Thriving in Discomfort: SJ Kim on Writing About and Through Displacement

Thriving in Discomfort: SJ Kim on Writing About and Through Displacement

“Writing can reassure and writing can upset, writing can disrupt.”

By SJ Kim | April 17, 2024

The Woman With the Mysterious Illness Behind Freud’s Famous “Talking Cure”

The Woman With the Mysterious Illness Behind Freud’s Famous “Talking Cure”

Gabriel Brownstein on the Long Tradition of Men Misdiagnosing Women’s Maladies

By Gabriel Brownstein | April 17, 2024

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Elwin Cotman on His Frustration and Enchantment with a True 1980s Classic

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How Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Forged a Literary and Romantic Bond

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Michael Korda on the Creative and Sentimental Camaraderie Between Two Soldier Poets

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The Sound of C: On Giving a Voice to the Words of Others

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Lissa Soep Chronicles the Process of Creating an Emotionally Authentic Audiobook

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Brianna Pastor Had to Write About Her Grief and Shame to Begin Healing

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The Author of “Good Grief” on the Bittersweet Experience of Writing Her Poetry Collection

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Julia Hannafin on Thematic Parallels

Julia Hannafin on Thematic Parallels

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Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

Alissa Quart Reckons With the Precarity of the Writing Life

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The Literary Outsider: How Barbara Comyns Wrote Her Way to <em>The Juniper Tree</em>

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Sarah McClung on the Author’s Lifelong Creative Development

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