Working, 40 Years After ‘Working’
Four decades later, Studs Terkel's characterization of the American worker still applies.
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Block Quotes: Advice From Great Writers About Kicking Writer’s Block
A catalog of cures for writers in crisis.
Darkness Laughable: The Comic Genius of Cormac McCarthy
As one of our greatest living writers has his work lifted into the ivory tower, let’s reflect on how it’s the light, not the darkness, that keeps us going back for more.
In Praise of Slow Reading
A new reading app turns one classic and one current novel into a pair of serializations. Could it be a way to overcome our very modern tendency to skim?
Can the Kremlin’s Bizarre Sci-Fi Stories Tell Us What Russia Really Wants?
Over the past five years, Vladimir Putin’s presidential aide has been publishing fiction under an alias. Desperate for answers, commentators are trying hard to find some meaning in all of the madness.
What’s a Religious Experience?
Despite a belief in the supernatural being ever-present among Americans, the unknown remains a topic we rarely discuss.
The Heirs of Steinbeck: Who Are the Fiction Writers Taking on Poverty and Inequality Today?
Seventy-five years after its first publication date, The Grapes of Wrath is still a staple in most American classrooms. Is that because we haven’t yet written anything that does a better job of portraying the devastation of not having enough?
What Lord Byron’s Penis Tells Us About the Digital Humanities
The technophobes are missing a central point: It's about community.