• Features

    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    John Keene on Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s The Most Secret Memory of Men

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   February 21, 2024
    Hip Hop

    What Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Win Meant For American Music

    By Dr. Todd Boyd  February 21, 2024
    Biopics

    “What If We Weren’t Afraid to Tell the Hard Truths?” Chris Chalk on Playing James Baldwin

    By Dan Sheehan  February 21, 2024
    Animals

    In Search of the Elusive, Eternal Otter

    By Miriam Darlington  February 21, 2024
    Historical Fiction

    Writing Into Negative Space: Shining A Spotlight on History’s Sidelined Women

    By Kirsten Bakis  February 21, 2024
    TV Writing

    What Writing TV Soap Operas Taught Me About Writing Novels

    By Ellen Feldman  February 21, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Lily Gladstone on Chekhov and Listening

    By Talk Easy  February 21, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Tyson Yunkaporta on Deep Time Diligence

    By Emergence Magazine  February 21, 2024
    First Draft

    Leslie Jamison on Self-Construction as a Literary Act

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 20, 2024
    Cultural Criticism

    Always Rooting for the Antihero: How Three TV Shows Have Defined 21st-Century America

    By Michiko Kakutani  February 20, 2024
    Spirituality

    How The Prophet Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America

    By Joan Acocella  February 20, 2024
    Family Stories

    Amanda Churchill on Embracing Her Japanese Heritage Through Food

    By Amanda Churchill  February 20, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Finding a Writing Life of
    One’s Own

    By Seema Reza  February 20, 2024
    On Race

    “Malcolm Still Speaks.” Ibram X. Kendi on George Breitman and the Enduring Legacy of Malcolm X

    By Ibram X. Kendi  February 20, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    John Cotter on Writing by Accretion

    By I'm a Writer But   February 20, 2024
    Write-minded

    K-Ming Chang on Writerly Aesthetics

    By Write-minded   February 20, 2024
    Bookstores

    Bring Back the Big, Comfortable Bookstore Reading Chair

    By Casey Johnston  February 19, 2024
    Work-Life Balance

    Work-Life Imbalance: How the Pandemic Ruined Our Understanding of “Free” Time

    By Gary S. Cross  February 19, 2024
    Crime

    The Third Person: Writing in the Aftermath of a Home Robbery

    By Kate Sidley  February 19, 2024
    Music Legends

    The Show Must Go On: On Billie Holiday’s Last Live Performance

    By Paul Alexander  February 19, 2024
    Poetry

    “DOE PROBLEMS,” a Poem by Kevin Latimer

    By Kevin Latimer  February 19, 2024
    Humor

    Calvin Trillin Issues Some Important Corrections to Recent News Stories

    By Calvin Trillin  February 16, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    34 Transformative Prompts to Unlock Your Writing, Courtesy of Kelly Link

    By Kelly Link  February 16, 2024
    Social Movements

    The Complicated—Yet Inspiring!—History of Spiritualism in America

    By S. E. Porter  February 16, 2024
    Colonialism

    An Overdue Reckoning: How Sweden Continues to Deny Its Settler-Colonial Past

    By Linnea Axelsson  February 16, 2024
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