Books, Arts, and Culture

When novelist Karen Olsson was in high school in Washington, D.C., she checked The Simone Weil Reader out of the library and became obsessed by the...

We’re giving away five copies of Leslie Jamison’s new book Make It Scream, Make it Burn (you remember Jamison from The Empathy Exams). Take a look...

We were close for a long time. I was his photographer, colleague, friend, subject, and occasional collaborator. He used to say that he wanted to take...

“Prosody, and orthography, are not parts of grammar, but diffused like the blood and spirits throughout the whole.” —Ben Jonson, English Grammar (1617) Erasmus, author of...

Sponsored by The Line Between by New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee—just $1.99 for a limited time. These deals were active as of this writing,...

It’s official, my beautiful mythology fans. Streamer HBO Max has ordered an eight-episode straight-to-series of Madeline Miller’s Circe, a modern retelling of the Greek myth of...

For any type of business to succeed, you have to get paid. Whether you do one freelance gig a month or run a full-time writing business,...