Great Writers “Tell” All the Time

Great diarists open up the entire folio of their lives. Samuel Pepys was a great diarist. He was also a wretched human being

The Art of Befriending Time and Change: Debbie Millman’s Illustrated Love Letter to Gardening as a Portal to Self-discovery

Massachusetts Denial of Gun Rights Restoration Reversed by Appellate Court

America Spends a Lot of Money on Seniors

The Real AI Race

Why Does Trump Want the Biggest Defense Budget Ever?

Mercy from on High

The Hormuz War Will End

Researchers develop molecular editing tool to relocate alcohol groups

Uncanny and vaguely malevolent, the institutional Gothic style replaces bloodthirsty lords with soulless corporations

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Famous for telling writers to embrace their “shitty first drafts,” Bird by Bird is one of the most popular writing guides of all time. Is it any good?

Is "great replacement" the grand unifying political theory of our time? Ibram X. Kendi is back

Robert Macfarlane is one of the great nature writers of his generation, making him an unusual critic of the genre

Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed

Global Cooperation in a Time of Geopolitical Disruption

Hemingway’s Advice on Writing, Ambition, and His Reading List of Essential Books for Aspiring Writers

Peter Matthiessen went to Paris to spy and write the Great American Novel. But he was, in his words, “always in the club drinking martinis”

Virginia Woolf envisioned female intellectuals with the time and space to write. Hers was an enduring vision — but also a lonely one

Diogenes for Our Time

The Trump Administration Made Habeas Corpus Great Again