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Writing
April 22, 2024
Magazine
Samanth Subramanian
AI and the End of the Human Writer
If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity?
September 15, 2022
Colin Dickey
The Axios Guide to Writing Well Is Neither Smart Nor Brief
How much complexity is lost in a sentence no longer than six words?
June 20, 2022
Magazine
Joanna Scutts
The End of the Art-Baby Problem
In the lives of women from Alice Neel to Ursula Le Guin, motherhood was entwined with a quest to make art.
March 22, 2018
Colin Dickey
Why Dictators Write
What Saddam Hussein’s romance novels and Kim Jong-il’s film criticism reveal about authoritarianism.
September 13, 2017
Malcolm Harris
Who Can Afford to Write Like John McPhee?
His new book is a fascinating guide to non-fiction. But today's economy makes it hard for many writers to replicate his success.
January 11, 2017
Colin Dickey
Cash for Words: A Brief History of Writing for Money
Money taints everything, why not writing too?
September 30, 2016
Jess Row
What Are White Writers For?
For a writer to deny that fiction is political is not only an act of bad faith, but an artistic failure.
July 26, 2016
Matthew Kirschenbaum
How Technology Has Changed the Way Authors Write
June 21, 2016
Josephine Wolff
Why the Humble Notebook Is Flourishing in the iPhone Era
The craze for bullet journaling shows that sometimes pen and paper is best—as long as the results can be Instagrammed.
March 31, 2016
Louis Begley
How Thrillers Are Made
Louis Begley reflects on a writing career, begun at age 56.
January 20, 2016
Jonathan Russell Clark
The Classic Fiction Formula
Roy Peter Clark has made a whole career out of his guides to better writing. But does his fiction manual actually work?
January 6, 2016
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Where’s Literature’s Class Diversity?
For writers, socioeconomic class is still hard to talk about.
December 8, 2015
Max Rivlin-Nadler
What Would a Real Freelancer’s Union Look Like?
October 12, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
White Male Writers: No Longer the Default, and Not Terribly Interesting
August 4, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
All Work and No Pay
Writing is rarely considered a serious occupation. Why?
October 3, 2014
Jesse Singal
Steven Pinker: These Are the Grammar Rules You Don't Need to Follow
July 23, 2014
Tom Bissell
You Are Now Entering the Demented Kingdom of William T. Vollmann
Home to goddesses, dreams, and a dangerously uncorrupted literary mind
July 16, 2014
Alice Robb
Interruptions Are Even Worse Than We Thought
That Gchat is definitely hurting your work
July 9, 2014
Laurie Penny
The Feminist Writer's Dilemma
Women are encouraged to write about personal experiences—and then dismissed as "confessional"
May 26, 2014
Sarah Marshall
Adjuncts Aren't Just Teaching College Kids, They're Trying to Keep Them Together
The unique privilege of being young, white, female, and relateable
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