American writing instruction has always involved some level of torture. What happens when technology makes it easy?

In “Kin,” the follow-up to the best-selling “An American Marriage,” she looks back on the place and the people that forged her.

We should not close ourselves off to the possibility that a fun, charismatic David Foster Wallace fan may theoretically exist, somewhere in the world.

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Emily Johnston, a writing studies professor at UC Merced, has researched how the act of writing rewires the brain to build ...

Try an attitude shift that doesn’t force you to choose between setting strict reading goals and giving up altogether.

Umama Ali spent more time as a kid arguing with his brother over who caused the most chaos in GTA Vice City than doing homework, and he’s been unapologetically hooked on games ever since. That ...

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet. “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in ...

The award, run by Hachette UK and Libraro, aims to ‘sidestep the traditional barricades of the book industry’ and give readers a role in discovering new talent A new £50,000 writing prize that allows ...

The novelist and critic Lucy Ives began composing writing prompts, sometimes spontaneously in classes she was teaching. These prompts grew to a collection of three hundred and sixty-five, which will ...