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Often it seems everything is terrible, but it is essential, I think, to remember the magic all around us. I recently did a talk in which...

I’ve spent much of this year writing a novel, which I expected would have a big impact on my reading habits. But apart from some research...

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1.A week before the Camp Fire raged through Butte County and decimated a little town called Paradise, I sat on the edge of Lake Tahoe, reading,...

If you’ve been freelancing for any amount of time, chances are you’ll agree with this statement: Pitching. Is. The worst. First, you’ve got to come up...

“Can You Ever Forgive Me?” and other new films are filling a huge but often unnoticed gap in our storytelling Richard E. Grant and Melissa McCarthy...

Shirley Barrett on cancer as a demonic infestation Photo by ian dooley on Unsplash I n the first line of The Bus on Thursday — the latest novel from...

The author of “Our Kind of Cruelty” adds her picks to our Read More Women series Araminta Hall’s thriller Our Kind of Cruelty gets deeply into the...

Around 1730 Johann Sebastian Bach began to recycle his earlier works in a major way. He was in his mid-forties at the time, and he had...

Last November, Rioter Jessica Plummer wrote a really excellent post on all of the Captains Marvel. I’m going to do a quick refresher on the two who...