“[Imperialism] allowed people to break away from shackling old traditions and heritages. It introduced the world to fresh ideas and new opportunities. These are the contributions that matter for the…

My father, Edward, was a machinist for the Singer Sewing Company, who came home every night and faithfully read the New York Daily News because it was the paper of the working man.

About THE RAZOR The Razor is a literary magazine produced by Gotham Writers Workshop. We publish two pieces each month—one fiction, one nonfiction. For now, we do not publish poetry (though we do appr...

Featuring Marlon James, Jon Ronson, Emily St. John Mandel, Emily Wilson, and more

It will be the Year of Perfect Skin, I told myself. I had arrived at my mid-forties, and the mirror suddenly gave me a face crosshatched with creases. I was Portrait of a Woman Aging. I was a cubis…

Library acquires the papers of jazz legend Gil Evans.

It’s nighttime in the playroom and the toys have gathered for a conference. For modern audiences, this scene likely evokes the imaginative world of Toy Story, the long-running film franchise about …

Be moved the old-fashioned way.

“Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.”

Launching your own blog or online magazine provides one of the best venues for you to hone and showcase your own vision, voice, and views....

“What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” –TS Eliot, from “A Little Gidding” from The Four Quartets * Franca owned a p…

The Razor is a literary magazine produced by Gotham Writers Workshop. We publish two pieces each month—one fiction, one nonfiction. Each published piece will be presented with audio and original artwo...

A fiction writer considers how long, or short, any given narrative needs to be, and in the process finds a new appreciation for an often-neglected form: the novella.

When author Daniel José Older was still an aspiring novelist, writing stories in between shifts as an NYC paramedic, he hit a snag. He couldn’t...

Writers are fed a bevy of mantras—“show don’t tell,” “kill your darlings”—which provide the security that there are rules, but little else. A new book by Lucy Ives offers a more expansive view of writing advice.

/ I learn ‘ahooyawpe’ means: from the air and can mean a telephone wire or radio sounds, perhaps even a phone. I name my phone chinuuho’ ‘ahooyawpe’ /…