• Features

    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
    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
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