Jim Shepard: When Your Novel Veers a Little Too Close to Grim Reality

Jim Shepard: When Your Novel Veers a Little Too Close to Grim Reality

An Armchair Catastrophist Predicts a Pandemic

By Jim Shepard | May 19, 2021

An Argument for Literature as Care Work

An Argument for Literature as Care Work

Alexandra Kingston-Reese on How Writers Can Ease a Care Crisis

By Alexandra Kingston-Reese | May 19, 2021

Swipe Right for Loneliness: On the Gamification of Dating Apps

Swipe Right for Loneliness: On the Gamification of Dating Apps

Nancy Jo Sales Considers the Perils of Instant Gratification and the Hellscape That is Tinder

By Nancy Jo Sales | May 19, 2021

Letting Go of Silence in the Wake of Miscarriage

Letting Go of Silence in the Wake of Miscarriage

Barbara Becker on Grief and Recovery

By Barbara Becker | May 19, 2021

On the Origins of White Europeans’ Bigoted Fascination with Skin Color and Racial Hierarchy

On the Origins of White Europeans’ Bigoted Fascination with Skin Color and Racial Hierarchy

Olivette Otele Considers the Historical Representation of Black People in Art and Fiction

By Olivette Otele | May 19, 2021

Do Our Minds Have Immune Systems to Protect Us from Infectious Ideas?

Do Our Minds Have Immune Systems to Protect Us from Infectious Ideas?

Andy Norman in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 19, 2021

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Would you let a random group of strangers on the Internet plot your next novel?

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On the Ones We Leave Behind: God and Ghosts at the Wisconsin State Fair

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“Why can’t I go a week without wondering what she might have made of the person I’ve become?”

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“All He Wanted From Us Was Truth.” Remembering Stephen Dixon

“All He Wanted From Us Was Truth.” Remembering Stephen Dixon

Courtney Zoffness on Finding Authenticity in a Great Writer and Professor

By Courtney Zoffness | May 18, 2021

How to Be Cool: On the Societal Expectations Placed on Black Boys vs. White Boys

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Brian Broome Considers the One-Two Punch of Gender and Racial Identity

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