• Features

    The Writing Life

    How Do You Write About People Who Don’t Want To Be Written About?

    By Ethan Lou  October 18, 2021
    Teaching Through a Pandemic

    On Teaching at the End of the World

    By Rashaan Alexis Meneses  October 18, 2021
    Monsters

    “Its eyes were as large as a dinner plate…” Encounters with Dragons in Early America

    By Scott G. Bruce  October 18, 2021
    Neuroscience

    On the Historical Stigmatization and Persistent Vilification of Epilepsy in Literature

    By Louise Fein  October 18, 2021
    First Draft

    Richard Powers on the Duplicity of Bewilderment

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 18, 2021
    The Holocaust

    On Dr. Eduard Bloch, Hitler’s Family Physician (Who Happened to Be Jewish)

    By Meriel Schindler  October 18, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On the Compulsion and Seduction of Mystery Tales

    By History of Literature  October 18, 2021
    Theater

    Oedipus at the Bellevue Men’s Shelter: How Sophocles Speaks to Contemporary Trauma

    By Bryan Doerries  October 18, 2021
    Poetry

    “Some Trees”

    By Tracy K. Smith  October 18, 2021
    Beauty

    On the Unattainable Myth of Feminine Beauty Ideals and Our Culture of Fat Phobia

    By Sesali Bowen  October 18, 2021
    What to Read Next

    Betsy Bonner on Wuthering Heights, Bluets, and Mary Gaitskill’s Sex Scenes

    By Book Marks  October 18, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    “Unknitting Despair.” Catherine Bush on Reciprocity, Care, and Ecological Loss

    By Emergence Magazine  October 18, 2021
    Keen On

    Jean Becker on George H.W. Bush’s Life After Presidency

    By Keen On  October 18, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    April in Spain by John Banville, Read by John Lee

    By Behind the Mic   October 18, 2021
    Open Source

    Jonathan Franzen on Reckoning with the Limits and Purposes of Writing Novels

    By Open Source  October 15, 2021
    Birds

    A Compendium of Literary Ravens

    By Angus Hyland and Caroline Roberts  October 15, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Marguerite Duras on Finding Stories Everywhere

    By Marguerite Duras  October 15, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Books You May Have Missed in September

    By Bethanne Patrick  October 15, 2021
    TV

    “A Glorious Mess.” On Confronting the Complexities of Storytelling with Anthony Bourdain

    By Tom Vitale  October 15, 2021
    Capitalism

    Finding Freedom from the Chokehold of Modern Capitalism in Nomadland

    By Sara Zarr  October 15, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Alfred Molina on His Genre- and Character-Spanning Career

    By Behind the Mic   October 15, 2021
    Politics

    Why America Needs a New Vocabulary to Describe Its Shortcomings

    By Barrett Holmes Pitner  October 15, 2021
    Music history

    The Time Jim Morrison Was Arrested Onstage in the Middle of a Show

    By Robby Krieger  October 15, 2021
    New Books Network

    “The Border Crossed Us.” Beth Alvarado on Writing About the Borderlands

    By New Books Network  October 15, 2021
    Writers in Conversation

    Mondiant Dogon on Writing as an Important and Difficult Healing Process

    By Jenna Krajeski  October 15, 2021
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