You told me that the idea for your story “Mitzvah” came from a taxi ride. Can you explain?I took a...
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For years, troubling charges—appropriation, plagiarism—have hovered over Wallace Stegner’s famous novel, “Angle of Repose,” the story of a mining engineer...
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The origin of feathersThe regal creature below is a Tupandactylus, a species of pterosaur. Pterosaurs were winged flying reptiles that...
The captain of the San Francisco Giants — that’s captain with a capital C, crudely concocted with strips of black...
The idea that it’s bad to say the same thing twice has been around for a long time. Something in...
"Writing With Fire" captures Khabar Lahariya (Hindi for "news waves") at a specific point in its now two decades of...
Gold medallist Eileen Gu after receiving her medal for the women's freeski halfpipe on Friday in Beijing. (Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)Two-time...
For more than a century written language was seen by anthropologists and other social scientists as a definitional feature of...
Former "Golden Girls" writer Stan Zimmerman says watching Betty White perform jokes was "like watching a baseball player hit it...