Opinion

[ Recently I asked writer, editor and teacher Dinty W. Moore to join the conversation on teaching creative writing, and...

Charlie Clark on what it might look like if U.S. News ranked churches.

Picking up on the premodern vs. modern theme of yesterday's post, Grad School Friend (who is on the tenure track...

Norman Mailer has won England's annual Bad Sex Award, posthumously, for a passage in one of his last novels. Here's...

"It's like when someone says plate. And then someone says shrimp. And then someone says plate of shrimp .... It's...

Three things caught my eye this morning, each conveying a “time’s up!” warning. First, while savoring my first cup of...

My guest today is John Warner, editor of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, a man who once took a chance on a...

Al Qaeda's strategists have a battle plan. Scott McLemee wants to duck and cover....