Authors

Why I Love Translating

Oct 12, 2022

Essay by Patricia Dubrava

Many of the best translators know the language of the original well, but I share an advantage with all the best: I’m a writer, too.

Authors, Translations, Creative Lifer | Read More

It All Comes Back to Joan Didion

Dec 26, 2021

Memorial Essay by Martha Nichols

I miss her already, that’s the thing. I’ve been expecting to miss her for a long time.

Why I Write, Authors, Journalism | Read More

Your Baby's Ugly

May 17, 2021

Essay by Joan Frank

People bring unknowable baggage to their readings—and to the author herself.

Authors, Writer's Life, Fame | Read More

Remembering Michael Steinberg (1940–2019)

Dec 19, 2019

Essay by Martha Nichols

He loved self-reflection—the way memory, personal changes over time, and reality can come together to conjure a place far beyond documentation.

Authors, First Person, About Memoir | Read More

Ben Purkert: Sinister, Brutal, and Honest

Dec 03, 2018

TW Interview by David Cameron

Whoever is holding the book is the beloved in some sense.

Featured Interview, Authors, About Poetry | Read More

Reading Proust at the Gym

Nov 19, 2018

Essay by Steven Lewis

Swann’s Way was simply impassable. Even Proust said so.

Authors, Reader's Life, Yawping Wild | Read More

My Favorite Misfit: Ursula K. Le Guin

Apr 30, 2018

Essay by Martha Nichols

Rather than walking the road back to my teenage obsession with science fiction, I’ve realized what I owe her as a journalist and teacher.

Authors, Science and Society, First Person | Read More

That Kind of Book

Jan 29, 2018

Essay by Steven Wingate

Burying my religion to sell a novel? That’s bad faith—or no faith at all.

Writing and Faith, Authors, Writer's Life | Read More

Can a Woman Make a Joke?

Feb 06, 2017

TW Column by Emily Toth

Women are more apt to tell drawn-out stories, with caresses and tweaks.

Authors, Screen Time, Nothing but the Toth | Read More

My Postcards to a Dead Author

Dec 14, 2016

Essay by Kelcey Parker Ervick

I was the biographer of one woman, but I was also writing my own life.

Mixed Media, Authors, Writer's Life | Read More

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