Maggie Smith on How She Approached Plot in Her Memoir
In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
Writing From the Margins: On the Origins and Development of the Lyric Essay
Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold Consider Essay Writing as Resistance
Ling Ling Huang on the Similarities Between Classical Music and Fiction Writing
“Music and writing demand the same things: self-discipline, time, and patience.”
Charif Shanahan on Making the Unseen Seen through Poetry
The Poet on His New Collection Trace Evidence
The Reader is the Only Place That Matters: On the Metaphysical Space Within Literature
Former Prison Librarian Blair Austin Wonders Where We Go When We Read
What to Read Before and After Seeing the Adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“Elegant, whimsical, and haunting.”
When the IRA Arrived in Brighton to Blow Up Margaret Thatcher, Her Cabinet, and the Grand Hotel
Patrick Magee Was Behind Enemy Lines. His Job Was to Assemble and Plant the Device.
The Most Mysterious of Arts: On the Science of Reading
Adrian Johns Considers Our Attempts to Codify and Optimize Learning
How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a Brisk Thriller and a Passionate Argument for Revolution
The Fictionalization of Andreas Malm’s 2021 Manifesto Asks How Far We Should Go to Fight Climate Destruction and Injustice
Dani Shapiro on Letting Structure Reveal Itself
“You don’t know—you can’t know—whether the bricks you’ve laid on top will be supported by the bricks at the bottom.”
When Cate Blanchett Played Tennessee Williams’s Greatest Character
Nancy Schoenberger on the Power of Blanche duBois in Liv Ullmann's Unique Production of A Streetcar Named Desire
Why Should We Care About Penguins?
Naira de Gracia Explores the Importance of Species Conservation in Antarctica
Jane Roper on Learning How to Have Fun While Writing Fiction
“Bringing your full self to your work, wielding all of your tools with abandon, is fun at a whole other level.”
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