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Robin Sloan, author of "Sourdough," demystifies our quarantine fixation—and explains what we can learn from lactobacilli → Read More
I can't stop thinking about a sci-fi novel where a woman has to choose between personal and global ruin → Read More
For starters: it's actually dystopian science fiction → Read More
Wait, you think women keep their credit cards WHERE? → Read More
Almost three years after his death, the singer-songwriter can still teach us something about what writing is for → Read More
One of the things I’m proudest of, as a writer, is that I have personally broken up at least two marriages. Not on purpose! I barely knew these people at the time. But I wrote an essay about my own… → Read More
We asked these questions at our event for PEN America’s LitCrawl NYC, and now you can play along at home! → Read More
Figure out your personality problems according to the DSM (Diagnostic Shakespeare Manual) → Read More
"Offred" and "Ofglen" varietals are only the latest in disturbing Handmaid merchandise → Read More
In honor of Jonathan Franzen's retirement, here's a humor piece nobody else would publish because it was too mean. → Read More
A W.H. Auden poem from 1938 has a lot to teach us about how we react to the separation of immigrant families today → Read More
For Novel Gazing, send us your literary revelations. Submissions are open May 15–June 1. → Read More
Through the power of Photoshop, the author is getting her book into the hands of celebs from Oprah to Jon Snow → Read More
If you’re having trouble finding new ideas, remember: there are plenty of old ones you can smush together! → Read More
For Novel Gazing, send us your stories about literary love affairs — romantic or otherwise → Read More
What “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” can teach us about entertainer presidents — and why they won’t work in this universe → Read More
I t probably started with Ronald Reagan, the actor-turned-president—or, if you take Douglas Adams’ word for it, the terrifyingly dangerous extraterrestrial-origin synthetic person. Reagan didn’t jump right from Hollywood to the presidency; he spent a long time as governor of California, and even as an actor he was also a union leader. (Ironic, huh? He … → Read More
We talk about separating art from artist, but many of the accused abusers aren’t creators—they’re gatekeepers → Read More
We thought print was dying, but apparently it’s just going to sleep → Read More
Janelle Shane’s neural network is trying to start a novel, but like human writers, it’s only as good as what it reads → Read More