After stabilizing, modernizing, and diversifying the century-old artist retreat, Richardson says she's ready for a new chapter.

"We are our memory… that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.”

by Beth Sherman When mom enrolled in clown school, life became unbearable. Picking me up after soccer practice, she’d still be wearing her costume—checked coat, baggy pants, oversized shoes, bow ti…

Join author K.C Mead-Brewer for a 90-minute workshop all about accentuating and celebrating the horror elements in your stories, no matter the genre. Be prepared for an evening with plenty of teeth in...

Series that are created by one or more women employ more women in other key behind-the-scenes positions, as well as featuring female characters that take up space and are central to the action.

The literary world is finally asking a question it has dodged for years: What can a human writer do that artificial intelligence cannot? The answers tend to circle around technical and personal asp…

We updated this list as part of the the Best of the Best Books Reading Challenge! Join the challenge now! Very short novels have a special magic—not least because, not to be morbid, you can simply …

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

Recent findings suggest that detection models for artificial intelligence (AI) cannot accurately identify AI-generated text and may exhibit bias against certain minority groups. In the present...

The church and artists must ally, he said, "to safeguard our humanity."

My heroes are leaving. The giants are leaving us. It's hard not to feel this way. It's hard not to take it personally, even though death is the way of the

“As with Joyce’s Dublin, place isn’t simply geographical–it is inherent in the working-class culture in which characters live. The tension remains across stories because it is, at root, based in econo...

✨ Save the date! Next week, Raúl Zurita, our 2026 Lifetime Recognition Award recipient, will be in conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama. 📺 Watch the live premiere of this exclusive interview, with…

How Partisan Review Helped Displace a Revolutionary and Most Fully Alive Literary Culture

The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.

The Case for Reviving Rural Newspapers

The folk singer bringing NPR liberals, Marxists, and Joe Rogan together.

ALT: a woman in a colorful dress is dancing on a rooftop

From Arkansas rice farms to campus Title IX policy, college reporters are connecting federal decisions to their communities.

Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.

Her papers and John Gregory Dunne’s open to researchers at the New York Public Library today.

John Pleasant Stafford worked as an apprentice at the first newspaper in Springdale (Washington and Benton counties), the Springdale Enterprise, in the ...

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