If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity?

How much complexity is lost in a sentence no longer than six words?

In the lives of women from Alice Neel to Ursula Le Guin, motherhood was entwined with a quest to make art.

What Saddam Hussein’s romance novels and Kim Jong-il’s film criticism reveal about authoritarianism.

His new book is a fascinating guide to non-fiction. But today's economy makes it hard for many writers to replicate his success.

Money taints everything, why not writing too?

For a writer to deny that fiction is political is not only an act of bad faith, but an artistic failure.

The craze for bullet journaling shows that sometimes pen and paper is best—as long as the results can be Instagrammed.

Louis Begley reflects on a writing career, begun at age 56.

Roy Peter Clark has made a whole career out of his guides to better writing. But does his fiction manual actually work?

For writers, socioeconomic class is still hard to talk about.

Writing is rarely considered a serious occupation. Why?

Home to goddesses, dreams, and a dangerously uncorrupted literary mind

That Gchat is definitely hurting your work

Women are encouraged to write about personal experiences—and then dismissed as "confessional"

The unique privilege of being young, white, female, and relateable