• Features

    The Craft of Writing

    Julia Alvarez on Falling in Love with Writing Again

    By Julia Alvarez  April 19, 2024
    Women in Science

    How Lydia Ernestine Becker Was Once Central to—Then Excluded from—the Study of Botany

    By Erin Zimmerman  April 19, 2024
    Libraries

    An Oasis in the Desert: Why Libraries Are the Best Places to Write

    By Rahul Mehta  April 19, 2024
    Free Speech

    PEN President Jennifer Finney Boylan Announces Plans to Review PEN’s Work Going Back a Decade

    By Literary Hub  April 18, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  April 18, 2024
    Bookselling

    Why the Elderly Make the Best Customers: On Bookselling in an Aging Town

    By Samantha Ladwig  April 18, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Jeff Daniels on Getting Inside a Story

    By Talk Easy  April 18, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    My “Friend” Keeps Sending Me Their Writing and I Need It To Stop: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  April 18, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jen Silverman on Generational Divides in American Politics

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 18, 2024
    On The Self

    The Journey of a Madwoman: Between Facts, Memory, and a Fractured Self

    By Suzanne Scanlon  April 18, 2024
    On Grief

    Facing That Which Haunts You: Ethel Rohan on Writing About Grief

    By Ethel Rohan  April 18, 2024
    Poetry

    “To My Teacher,” a Poem by Jean Valentine

    By Jean Valentine  April 18, 2024
    Politics

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

    By Dan Sheehan  April 17, 2024
    Cultural History

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

    By Adam Kuper  April 17, 2024
    Graphic Memoir

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

    By Eddie Ahn  April 17, 2024
    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
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