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media debate • books • movies

At a time when female critics from Caitlin Moran to Mary Beard are being harassed all over the Internet, the lack of editorial attitude is troubling.

why I write • faith • visual art

I’d never seen that part of the body before. It looks so much like drawing.

advice • teaching • interviews

In many of my interviews, I asked people whether they thought there was a telepathic element to creating art.

fiction • memoir • writer's life

We yawned, slapped at flies, already unmoved by the pageantries of masculinity.

featured poets • poetry spotlights

In the stillness of morning’s ascent/snow falls upon the trees

from adoption to writerly sins...

The first bookstore in my life had two wheels and a nasal voice that called out 'Maga-zine! Maga-zine!'