• Memoir

    When I’m Not Writing

    Maryse Meijer on Training to Be a Bullfighter (Who Will Never Fight Bulls)

    By Maryse Meijer  November 28, 2022
    Cooking

    Finding Comfort and Escape in Marcella Hazan’s Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

    By A. Cerisse Cohen  November 28, 2022
    First Draft

    Elizabeth McCracken on Grieving Her Mother Through Writing

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 28, 2022
    Indigenous History

    On Preserving the Lenape Language (and Trying to Get Face Time with an NYC Mayor)

    By Margie Cook  November 28, 2022
    Prose Poetry

    Read “Autumn Night,” From Lu Xun’s Experimental Prose Collection Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk

    By Lu Xun and Eileen J. Cheng  November 28, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Newsroom Confidential by Margaret Sullivan, Read by Lisa Flanagan and Margaret Sullivan

    By Behind the Mic   November 28, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama, Read by Michelle Obama

    By Behind the Mic   November 28, 2022
    Art Forgery

    How a Forgery of a Forgery Began a Career in the Artistic Underworld

    By Tony Tetro and Giampiero Ambrosi  November 22, 2022
    Politics

    Shirley Chisholm on Why She Ran for President

    By Shirley Chisholm  November 21, 2022
    Swimming

    In Praise of the Glorious Deliverance of Swimming

    By Michael Parker  November 21, 2022
    When I’m Not Writing

    A (Tiny) Room of One’s Own: Bruna Dantas Lobato on the Intricate Joy of Miniatures

    By Bruna Dantas Lobato  November 21, 2022
    Diaries

    Just Passing Through: On Milton Gendel’s Seven-Decade Roman Holiday

    By Cullen Murphy  November 21, 2022
    Emergence Magazine

    Reflections on Mothering in the Apocalypse

    By Emergence Magazine  November 21, 2022
    What to Watch

    Finding a Hero in Wednesday Addams as a Closeted and Neurodivergent Tween

    By Aisling Walsh  November 18, 2022
    Punk Rock

    Bad Religion’s Greg Gaffin on What the Early Documentaries Got Wrong About the Punk Scene

    By Greg Graffin  November 18, 2022
    Criticism

    Choosing to Bear Witness: Writing the Story of a Body

    By Emily Van Duyne  November 17, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Jeanna Kadlec on Leaving the Evangelical Church

    By The Maris Review  November 17, 2022
    Labor

    The Dramatic Consequences of Excluding Homecare Workers from Labor Rights

    By Jamie K. McCallum  November 16, 2022
    Theater

    “What Is It You Actually Do?” Jack O’Brien on the Role(s) of a Theater Director

    By Jack O'Brien  November 16, 2022
    Writing Process

    Meg Howrey on Speaking for Her Novel’s Protagonist

    By Meg Howrey  November 15, 2022
    Twitterverse

    Stephanie Land on Putting the Pieces of Your Life Together and Finding Your Way

    By Twitterverse   November 15, 2022
    When I’m Not Writing

    Part Armor and Part Theater: Kyle Lucia Wu on Curating Sartorial Courage

    By Kyle Lucia Wu  November 14, 2022
    Poetry

    Su Cho on Beginning Her Poetic Journey

    By Su Cho  November 14, 2022
    Midsummer

    Dorthe Nors Spends the Shortest Night of the Year on Denmark’s North Sea Coast

    By Dorthe Nors  November 14, 2022
    Writer's block

    Healing, Then Writing: Confronting Writer’s Block in the Early Years of Sobriety

    By Matthew Quick  November 14, 2022
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