Australia’s Shame
Let us suppose that I am the heir of an enormous estate. Stories about my generosity abound. And let us suppose that you are a young...
29 Parenting Blogs and Magazines That Pay Freelance Writers
The internet is full of writing opportunities, especially within the ever-popular parenting niche. There are plenty of high quality parenting websites that pay their writers in...
The Nik of Time
To the Editors: James Gleick writes, in “Moon Fever,” “If it wasn’t for Sputnik, we wouldn’t have had ‘beatniks,’ ‘peaceniks,’ or ‘no-goodniks.’” He is mistaken. Source...
The Missing Ordinance
To the Editors: One more element needs to be added to James Oakes’s survey of antislavery politics before the Civil War. The factor apparently missing from...
Wannous in Translation
To the Editors: In her review of Sentence to Hope, the anthology of works by the Syrian playwright Sa‘dallah Wannous, Ursula Lindsey is incorrect in stating...
Herder in the Balance
To the Editors: I was very surprised to find in Professor Appiah’s “Dialectics of Enlightenment” a number of strange misconceptions, if not actual distortions, both of...
The Things My Dad Taught Me About Storytelling Won’t Show Up in an MFA
This essay appears in Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents, edited by Lise Funderberg. When I turned 14 years old away at boarding school, I paid...
In “Dominicana,” a Child Bride Longs for Home
Dominicana takes place in the 1960’s, following 15-year-old Ana Canción as she marries a man twice her age and immigrates to New York City from the...
8 Books About Chucking It All and Assuming a New Identity
Listen, adult responsibilities are hard. Between work, debt, dating, and all that other Life Stuff, nobody would blame you for fantasizing about walking away and reinventing...
Interview With Terry Blas and Claudia Aguirre of Hotel Dare
Terry Blas (Dead Weight) and Claudia Aguirre (Morning in America) are the team behind Hotel Dare, a fantasy graphic novel about family secrets, space aliens and...
