• Features

    On Writing

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

    By SJ Kim  April 17, 2024
    Medical history

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

    By Gabriel Brownstein  April 17, 2024
    craft advice

    Why Television Can Be Our Best Writing Teacher

    By Christine Ma-Kellams  April 17, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Margot Livesey on Thomas Hardy’s Mistakes

    By History of Literature  April 17, 2024
    Aliens?

    Earth? Really? On Why Aliens Would Probably Skip Visiting Our Planet

    By Lisa Kaltenegger  April 16, 2024
    On Reading

    The Time I Stole Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York and Couldn’t Stop Reading It

    By Elwin Cotman  April 16, 2024
    World War I

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

    By Michael Korda  April 16, 2024
    Audiobooks

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

    By Lissa Soep  April 16, 2024
    Writing the Book

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

    By Brianna Pastor  April 16, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Julia Hannafin on Thematic Parallels

    By I'm a Writer But   April 16, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    By Alissa Quart  April 15, 2024
    Women Writers

    The Literary Outsider: How Barbara Comyns Wrote Her Way to The Juniper Tree

    By Sarah McClung  April 15, 2024
    The Writing Life

    How To Write Egoless Prose, At Least For a Little While

    By Steve Almond  April 15, 2024
    Irish History

    How Ordinary Irish Citizens Got Caught Up in the Violence of the Troubles

    By Henry Hemming  April 15, 2024
    Geopolitics

    Considering the Lessons of the Cold War for the Next Great Power Rivalry

    By Adam E. Casey  April 15, 2024
    Colonialism

    How Colonial Powers Fought for Economic Dominance in North America

    By Hampton Sides  April 15, 2024
    First Draft

    Julia Alvarez on Mortality

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 15, 2024
    Write-minded

    John McMurtrie on the State of the Book Review

    By Write-minded   April 15, 2024
    Gaza

    Why I’m Using My PEN Nomination to Protest for Palestine

    By Sarah Cypher  April 12, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  April 12, 2024
    Music history

    How Deregulation Destroyed Indie Rock Across America

    By Tom Maxwell  April 12, 2024
    Language

    Yes, But Can You Really Explain the Difference Between Morals and Ethics?

    By Eli Burnstein  April 12, 2024
    Queer Literature

    More Than “Friendless” or “Fallen…” Giving Voice to the Women Who Misbehaved in History

    By Kelly E. Hill  April 12, 2024
    In Conversation

    Busting Genre, in Style: Geoff Dyer on the Joy of Writing “Unpublishable” Books

    By George Makari  April 11, 2024
    Publishing

    There Are Too Many Books; Or, Publishing Shouldn’t Be All About Quantity

    By Maris Kreizman  April 11, 2024
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