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The Myth of the Perfect Writer’s Room
In touring the history of writerly spaces, “The Writer’s Room” elegantly describes the rooms kept by Maya Angelou, Charles Dickens, Joan…
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The Brilliance and the Badness of “The Sun Also Rises”
The second sentence is “Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn.” Even to my…
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The Wild, Sad Life of John Cage’s First Lover
Why not New York? Personal factors may have been at work: in L.A., Cage’s parents could provide support. But L.A. was also coming into its…
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George Saunders and Zadie Smith Talk with Deborah Treisman
On October 25, 2025, the writers George Saunders and Zadie Smith took the stage with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman,…
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László Krasznahorkai and Contemporary Europe’s Perilous Reality
In 2011, I wrote that reading László Krasznahorkai “is a little like seeing a group of people standing in a circle in a town square,…
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Chris Kraus Reinvents the True-Crime Novel
On a recent Sunday morning, I took a bus to Williamsburg to meet Chris Kraus, the seventy-year-old writer who attained permanent literary…
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The War on Trans Art
In July, the artist Amy Sherald pulled out of a large-scale show at the Smithsonian after learning that she might not be able to include a…
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Rachel Kushner’s Advice to Writers
The novelist Rachel Kushner recently taught a class at Stanford that concerned, as the course catalogue advertised it, “the sacred art of…
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Curzio Malaparte’s Shock Tactics
“You’re a born Fascist, one of the authentic ones,” the Italian writer Piero Gobetti wrote to his friend Curzio Malaparte in 1925, three…
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Algerian court upholds writer's 5-year sentence in a case that’s strained ties with France
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A court in Algeria on Tuesday upheld Franco-Algerian author Boualem Sansal's five-year prison sentence in a case…
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An Enduring Archive of Queer Writers’ Portraits
Giard grew up in a working-class family in Hartford, Connecticut. When he entered public high school, he was shunted onto the remedial…
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Why Do Doctors Write?
The first patient I ever wrote about wasn’t actually my patient; as a first-year medical student, that possessive grammatical…
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When a Writer Takes to the Stage
Writers who contemplate going onstage tend to fall into two camps: those who know better and those who should but don’t. Of the second…
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M Is for Mortality: Lessons from Edward Gorey on His Hundredth Birthday
Gorey said, “I write about everyday life.” His work reminds us that death is a major fact of existence. Source link
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Hollywood writers say AI is ripping off their work. They want studios to sue
When the Writers Guild of America approved a contract with major studios in 2023, ending a 148-day strike, the union became the first…
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Ali Smith’s Playful Dystopia
Recently, just before lunch with the Scottish author Ali Smith, at Moro, a beloved North African and Mediterranean place in London’s…
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The moment that defined 2024, according to Newsweek writers
2024 has been a roller coaster of news: from Donald Trump being shot at a campaign rally to Joe Biden pulling out of the presidential…
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Writers Guild demands studios stop tech companies from training AI on their work
Writers Guild of America this week sent a letter to major Hollywood studios asking them to take action against tech companies that are…
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German branch of writers' association PEN bans far-right AfD members
The German branch of the writers' association PEN does not want any members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in its ranks…