What If Readers Are Learning the Wrong Lessons From My Writing?

What If Readers Are Learning the Wrong Lessons From My Writing?

Nafissa Thompson-Spires on Race, Empathy, and the Ethics of Satire

By Nafissa Thompson-Spires | April 25, 2018

When Fiction Pulls Back the Curtain on American Conservatism

When Fiction Pulls Back the Curtain on American Conservatism

Two Novels That Interrogate the Principle of the Few Over the Many

By Colette Shade | April 24, 2018

It's Never Too Soon for Art (or Politics) About Trauma

It's Never Too Soon for Art (or Politics) About Trauma

Tom McAllister on Writing a Novel About a School Shooting

By Tom McAllister | April 20, 2018

On the Many Braveries of Marjory Stoneman Douglas

On the Many Braveries of Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Dava Sobel in Praise of a Great Environmentalist, Writer, and American

By Dava Sobel | April 20, 2018

When War Destroyed My Grandmother's Grave

When War Destroyed My Grandmother's Grave

In Iraq, War Comes with Various Names

By Dunya Mikhail | April 19, 2018

Rebecca Solnit: Whose Story (and Country) Is This?

Rebecca Solnit: Whose Story (and Country) Is This?

On the Myth of a "Real" America

By Rebecca Solnit | April 18, 2018

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In Sarajevo, a Monument to Childhood Disrupted by War

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What the Critics Are Saying About the New James Comey Book

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On James Baldwin's Radical Writing for Playboy Magazine

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Can James Comey Write? 13 Passages From His New Trump Book

Can James Comey Write? 13 Passages From His New Trump Book

The Man Who Delivered America to Donald Trump is a First-Class Noticer

By Emily Temple | April 16, 2018

The Complicated Comforts of Marilynne Robinson

The Complicated Comforts of Marilynne Robinson

Could One Writer Help Me Reckon with Personal and Political Upheaval?

By Rachel Vorona Cote | April 13, 2018

PEN World Voices Festival: Resistance, Roxane Gay, and the Next Generation

PEN World Voices Festival: Resistance, Roxane Gay, and the Next Generation

Toward Freedom and Imagining a Better Future

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Robert Coover's Long Lost Seussian Satire of American Politics

Robert Coover's Long Lost Seussian Satire of American Politics

The Cat in the Hat for President (would be better than what we have now)

By Robert Coover | April 10, 2018

Gay, Muslim, Refugee: On Making a Life in Trump's America

Gay, Muslim, Refugee: On Making a Life in Trump's America

Aleksandar Hemon Tells the Story of Kemalemir Frashto

By Aleksandar Hemon | April 9, 2018

What the Rest of America Can Learn from California's Turnaround

What the Rest of America Can Learn from California's Turnaround

Demographic Shifts Might Save Us Yet

By Manuel Pastor | April 9, 2018

Kevin Williamson, Transphobia, and the Myth of Ideological Diversity

Kevin Williamson, Transphobia, and the Myth of Ideological Diversity

When the Center Moves Right, Extremism Looks Normal

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 4, 2018

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