Philip Roth talked with former All Things Considered host Robert Siegel many times over the years. Here Roth discusses some of his thoughts on his writing process. Roth died Tuesday at 85. The writer ...

A single sentence from a faculty mentor cut deeper than I expected—because it wasn’t the first time my voice had been questioned. I spent decades believing I was not good enough to become a writer.

HANIF ABDURRAQIB: So I lived in New Haven, Conn., for a stretch. And I didn't really enjoy it there. But this kind of weird and whimsical thing happened one Friday night where a lot of pizza places ...

Aloïse Corbaz, “Materdolorosa” (1922), graphite, ink, and colored pencil on card stock, 3.7 x 5.6 inches (photo by Sarah Baehler, Atelier de numérisation, Ville de Lausanne, courtesy Collection de ...

Why do some of us feel compelled to put words on paper or on screens? As a serial nonfiction author specializing in not particularly commercial American cultural history, I certainly do. I admittedly ...

This third entry in an occasional series from Roy Peter Clark, who witnessed the Poynter Institute’s founding, explores its history in honor of its 50th anniversary. It would be hard to estimate how ...

There is something enduringly mysterious about the human capacity for language. Our mouths and throats contain an array of muscles and tissue that allow us to modulate the air we take in, transforming ...