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László Krasznahorkai Writes Because He Fails
Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Krasznahorkai’s answers, which were delivered in Hungarian, have been translated…
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Marie Arana and Writing Between Reality and Imagination
Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin This is a book that really confuses the place where reality and imagination meet. I am crazy about…
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Why the Best Writing Advice Is Often the Weirdest
In a talk on the “art of rough drafting,” George Saunders, the Phil Jackson of writing teachers, says he’s learned, through writing and…
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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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Anne Lamott’s Battle Against Writer’s Block
every form of mental illness … surfaces, leaping out of water like trout: the delusions, hypochondria, the grandiosity, the self-loathing,…
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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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Passerine Hosted a Luminous Diwali Celebration to Honored the Asian American Writers’ Workshop
In recent years, Diwali, the South Asian festival celebrating the triumph of light over darkness and good over evil, has become an…
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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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One Vogue Writer’s Ode to Non-Maternity Maternity Pants
Come January, there will be three pairs of shoes by the front door—two big, one miniature. A high chair will crown the dining table, a…
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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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The Unexpected Tool That’s One Beauty Writer’s Secret to Strong, Shiny Hair
The best scalp massagers for hair growth have held a loyal place in my beauty routine for over five years—and I could wax poetic about…
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The Daily Multivitamin That Remedied on Vogue Writer’s Chronic Fatigue
For me, my deficiencies showed up in my body as fatigue. Now granted, I skew sleepy by nature—think more indoor cat curled under a sunbeam…
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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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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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An Argentinean Writer and the Movement for Women’s Rights
Argentina was already a leader in gender-equality legislation—it was the first nation in Latin America to pass same-sex-marriage laws, and…
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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…