• Features

    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  February 9, 2024
    Artists and Muses

    Who Made Who? On the Creative Collaboration of Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse

    By Mark Braude  February 9, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Mako Yoshikawa on How Making Sushi Can Improve Your Writing

    By Mako Yoshikawa  February 9, 2024
    Astrophysics

    The Physics of Fiction: How Art and Science Inspire Each Other

    By Paul Halpern  February 9, 2024
    Mental health

    Writing Away the Angel in My Bedroom: On OCD

    By Cynthia Marie Hoffman  February 9, 2024
    Science!

    Dust, Desolation, and Awe: Rebecca Boyle on Would It Be Like to Return to the Moon

    By Rebecca Boyle  February 8, 2024
    Film History

    How Stanley Kubrick Brought Stephen King’s The Shining to the Big Screen

    By Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams  February 8, 2024
    American Presidents

    No Slaves, No Masters: What Democracy Meant to Abraham Lincoln

    By Allen C. Guelzo  February 8, 2024
    The Internet Age

    How Corporations Tried—And Failed—To Control the Spread of Content Online

    By David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu  February 8, 2024
    Painting

    Blood, Sweat, and Paint: Finding the Work Behind the Art

    By Bianca Bosker  February 8, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  February 8, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jacinda Townsend and James Bernard Short on American Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 8, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Elizabeth Rush on the Thwaites Glacier

    By Emergence Magazine  February 8, 2024
    Craft

    Killing Your Characters Is Traumatic: And It Should Be

    By Karen Outen  February 7, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Yiyun Li on Georges Bernanos’ Mouchette

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   February 7, 2024
    Art History

    Between Risk and Control: How Mark Rothko Discovered His Signature Style

    By Adam Greenhalgh  February 7, 2024
    Natural History

    How an Icelandic Bird Led to the Discovery of Human-Caused Extinction

    By Gísli Pálsson  February 7, 2024
    Language

    To Americanize or Americanise: Writing a New Zealand Novel in the America-Dominant Publishing World

    By Rebecca K Reilly  February 7, 2024
    Modern Classics

    Between Tragedy and Wit: Andrew Ewell on William Styron’s Classic, Sophie’s Choice

    By Andrew Ewell  February 7, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Adhaar Noor Desai on Analyzing Shakespeare’s Manuscripts

    By History of Literature  February 7, 2024
    Diaries

    “D,” an Alphabetical Prose Experiment by Sheila Heti

    By Sheila Heti  February 6, 2024
    Family History

    Supernatural Inheritance: On a Unique Family Gift That Crosses Continents

    By Margot Livesey  February 6, 2024
    Myths and Legends

    Why We Anthropomorphize Animals (and Always Have)

    By Hana Videen  February 6, 2024
    Poetry

    Faith, Witches, Grief, and Smoke: New Poetry Books to Read in February

    By David Woo  February 6, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Abbott Kahler on Nature vs Nurture

    By I'm a Writer But   February 6, 2024
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