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Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
The Little Book That Lost Its Author
How will artificial intelligence change literature?
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Cost of Reading
Ayşegül Savaş contemplates the way women’s and men’s time is valued and the uneven burden taken by women writers in literary citizenship.
Posted inStory
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Orchids
Sometimes a flower is just a flower, and sometimes it’s a powerful vehicle for giving free rein to our worst colonialist and misogynist impulses.
Posted inNonfiction
What Does It Mean To Be Moved?
We can all remember a time when the wind touched us when we needed touching, pushed us along when we were unsure.
Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women, Writing
The Occupation of a Woman Writer
Our inherited biases about who should write what live deeper than most of us realize or want to acknowledge.
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, History, Nonfiction, Quotes
‘London Was, But Is No More’
A loving, fascinating, melancholy, rollicking look at how technology and globalization are transforming urban spaces.
Posted inNonfiction
Editors Thinking About Editing at the AWP Conference
The only way to work as an editor and a writer is to continue learning from other editors and writers.
Posted inBlog Post, Unapologetic Women
Mary Beard’s Voyage Into ‘Herland’
In “Women in Power” Beard uses Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “Herland” to look at why powerful women don’t appear in our collective imagination.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Last London
“And now it feels, in the addiction and vertigo of the digital revolution, as if this ancient organism is wheezing, drawing its final breaths. We were never more than an extension of the geology of the Thames Valley.”
