American Literature’s White Whale: Why the “Great American Novel” is Still Worth Pursuing
Ed Simon on the Importance of Chasing an Elusive Literary Ideal in an Era of National Decline
The Eureka Moment: How Calculated Risk-Taking Can Lead to Scientific Innovation
Alex Hutchinson on the Intellectual Factors and Cognitive Processes That Produce Boundary-Pushing Science
The Beast Inside: What the Myth of the Minotaur Reveals About Human Nature
Natalie Lawrence Explores Our Enduring Obsession With Monsters, Internal and External
Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots
Anthony Giardina Explores “Advertisements for Myself” and a Controversial Author’s Legacy
What the Science of Gene Inheritance Reveals About the Humans Behind It
Dalton Conley Explores the Infinite Possibilities and Gross Misuses of Advances in Genetic Research
Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad
“Even as she does not mean to comfort, I feel her — here, still right here, to tell us how it really is.”
A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID
Jessie Chaffee: “For a moment, I am the girl, her existence of gray monotony broken by a sliver of sunlight while others revel in the day’s abundance.”
On the Best (Worst) Best Man Speech Ever (at My Super Mario-Themed Wedding)
Mike Drucker Finds a Little Humor in Life’s Many Setbacks
Can Writers Ever Remember How to Read For Fun?
Amy Shearn on Accidentally Killing Her Book Group and Rediscovering the Joys of Getting Lost in a Story
On the Challenge of Writing a Sequel to a Twenty-Year-Old Novel
Lee Martin Needed a New Story to Explain the Ending of “The Bright Forever”
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