On reality, writing, publishing, fiction, non-fiction, Doris Lessing, and femininity: a writer muses on writing that impacted her, and what it means to write fiction at all.
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The City Born Great: Fiction by N.K. Jemisin
Read The City Born Great, new fiction N.K. Jemisin, winner of a Hugo award for her novel, The Fifth Season.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Religious Iconography of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
A vast range of political, historical, and religious influences went into Margaret Atwood’s dystopia, including one unexpected logo.
Posted inFiction, Quotes
The Trump Story Project
Slate is running short stories by contemporary writers based in an imagined “Trump’s America.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The City Born Great: Fiction by N.K. Jemisin
When I relax my hands and open my eyes to see Paulo striding along the bridge toward me with another goddamned cigarette between his lips, I fleetingly see him for what he is again: the sprawling thing from my dream, all sparkling spires and reeking slums and stolen rhythms made over with genteel cruelty. I […]
Posted inEditor's Pick, Fiction, Quotes
The City Born Great: Fiction by N.K. Jemisin
Read The City Born Great, new fiction N.K. Jemisin, winner of a Hugo award for her novel, The Fifth Season.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story
When Sartre and Beauvoir Started a Magazine
In 1945, Les Temps modernes shocked the world with its pessimism and grim determination, and catapulted its founders into intellectual superstardom.
Posted inProfiles & Interviews, Story
‘I Try Not to Have a Schedule’: Talking Writing with William Vollmann
Renowned for the size of his books as the magnitude of his subjects, the author is ready to take on waste and climate change.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story, Travel
The Island that Disappeared
An Englishman searches for what’s left of Providence, a failed Puritan colony in the Caribbean.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Politics and Prose
Marie Myung-Ok Lee finds herself conflicted about attending a controversial author’s reading and wonders: what does “speaking up” actually mean?
