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Why is Writing About Art So Difficult?

Why is Writing About Art So Difficult?

Sara Woster on Finding the Words We Need

By Sara Woster | September 14, 2022

Chinelo Okparanta on William Styron’s <em>Confessions of Nat Turner</em> and Writing Across Racial Identities

Chinelo Okparanta on William Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner and Writing Across Racial Identities

“I did wonder about the implications of writing, albeit fictionally and satirically, from a white liberal-minded man’s perspective.”

By Chinelo Okparanta | September 14, 2022

“Moon News.” A Poem by Elisa Gabbert

“Moon News.” A Poem by Elisa Gabbert

From Her New Collection, Normal Distance

By Elisa Gabbert | September 14, 2022

Celeste Ng: What Place Does Art Have in the Fight Against Fascism?

Celeste Ng: What Place Does Art Have in the Fight Against Fascism?

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | September 14, 2022

Two or Three Things I Know About Jean-Luc Godard

Two or Three Things I Know About Jean-Luc Godard

Towards an Obituary of a Cinematic Giant

By Olivia Rutigliano | September 14, 2022

How Black History Saved Me: Peniel E. Joseph on His Path to Scholar-Activism

How Black History Saved Me: Peniel E. Joseph on His Path to Scholar-Activism

Tracing an Education, from W.E.B. Du Bois to Sonia Sanchez

By Peniel E. Joseph | September 14, 2022

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Maggie O’Farrell Reads from The Marriage Portrait

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | September 14, 2022

“I Can’t Believe I’ve Done This.” Jerry Stahl on Going All in for the Story

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | September 14, 2022

Families Far Worse Than Yours: A Reading List

By Sally Koslow | September 14, 2022

What Rituals Across Cultures Reveal About the Human Condition

What Rituals Across Cultures Reveal About the Human Condition

Dimitris Xygalatas on the Healing Properties of Risky Behavior

By Dimitris Xygalatas | September 14, 2022

What a Scandalous 1922 Murder Tells Us About America’s Current Obsession With True Crime

What a Scandalous 1922 Murder Tells Us About America’s Current Obsession With True Crime

Joe Pompeo in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 14, 2022

Author-Illustrator Dan Santat on the Magic of Fractured Fairy Tales

Author-Illustrator Dan Santat on the Magic of Fractured Fairy Tales

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | September 14, 2022

How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Crisis and How Reading Plato Can Help Cure it

How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Crisis and How Reading Plato Can Help Cure it

Nicholas Kardaras in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 14, 2022

How Getting Beyond Neoliberal Economics Can Enable America to Restore Its Greatness

How Getting Beyond Neoliberal Economics Can Enable America to Restore Its Greatness

Thom Hartmann in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 14, 2022

Susan Choi on the Range of Language's Possibilities in Raymond Carver and Grace Paley

Susan Choi on the Range of Language's Possibilities in Raymond Carver and Grace Paley

This Week on The Writers Institute Podcast, From the Archives of the New York State Writers Institute

By The Writers Institute | September 14, 2022

<em>Life on the Mississippi</em> by Rinker Buck, Read by Jason Culp

Life on the Mississippi by Rinker Buck, Read by Jason Culp

Take a Journey Down the Mississippi

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