• News and Culture

    Food Memoirs

    A Life Told in Dishes: Five Essential Food Memoirs

    By Sylvie Bigar  September 14, 2022
    Art Criticism

    Why is Writing About Art So Difficult?

    By Sara Woster  September 14, 2022
    On Race

    Chinelo Okparanta on William Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner and Writing Across Racial Identities

    By Chinelo Okparanta  September 14, 2022
    Thresholds

    Celeste Ng: What Place Does Art Have in the Fight Against Fascism?

    By Thresholds   September 14, 2022
    In Memoriam

    Two or Three Things I Know About Jean-Luc Godard

    By Olivia Rutigliano  September 14, 2022
    Black Activism

    How Black History Saved Me: Peniel E. Joseph on His Path to Scholar-Activism

    By Peniel E. Joseph  September 14, 2022
    Otherppl

    “I Can’t Believe I’ve Done This.” Jerry Stahl on Going All in for the Story

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 14, 2022
    Anthropology

    What Rituals Across Cultures Reveal About the Human Condition

    By Dimitris Xygalatas  September 14, 2022
    Keen On

    What a Scandalous 1922 Murder Tells Us About America’s Current Obsession With True Crime

    By Keen On  September 14, 2022
    NewberyTart

    Author-Illustrator Dan Santat on the Magic of Fractured Fairy Tales

    By NewberyTart   September 14, 2022
    Keen On

    How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Crisis and How Reading Plato Can Help Cure it

    By Keen On  September 14, 2022
    Keen On

    How Getting Beyond Neoliberal Economics Can Enable America to Restore Its Greatness

    By Keen On  September 14, 2022
    The Hub

    Here are this year’s Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalists.

    By Corinne Segal  September 13, 2022
    The Hub

    Jean-Luc Godard disliked e-books before they even existed.

    By Emily Temple  September 13, 2022
    The Hub

    Strand Bookstore’s $1,500 Bottega Veneta tote bag sucks and I hate it.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 13, 2022
    Authoritarianism

    Sarah Kendzior on Trumpland’s Criminal Distortions of American Reality

    By Sarah Kendzior  September 13, 2022
    Books

    Was It Ever Possible For One Person To Read Every Book Ever Written (in English)?

    By Randall Munroe  September 13, 2022
    Keen On

    How Seriously Should We Consider the January 6 Insurrection As a Threat to the American Republic?

    By Keen On  September 13, 2022
    Keen On

    Why World War II Remains So Seductive to Novelists For Writing About Good and Evil

    By Keen On  September 13, 2022
    Keen On

    How Writers Can Use Both Memory and Forgetting to Improve Their Work

    By Keen On  September 13, 2022
    The Hub

    This year, The Simpsons has a Halloween special devoted to Stephen King’s It.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 12, 2022
    American Politics

    Luke Mogelson on the Far-Right, the Militia Movement, and the Threat of Trumpism

    By Luke Mogelson  September 12, 2022
    Craft

    “I hunt and fish because it helps my writing.” Some Very Specific Writing Advice from Jim Harrison

    By Jim Harrison  September 12, 2022
    Motherhood

    On Muriel Spark’s Complicated Balancing of Writing and Motherhood

    By Begoña Gómez Urzaiz  September 12, 2022
    Neuroscience

    Gut Feelings: How Does Intuition Work, Anyway?

    By Elaine Fox  September 12, 2022
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