The Vegetarian” by Han Kang For a multitude of reasons — the environmental impact of livestock industries, personal ...

One Book One Northwestern is awarding a $500 prize for the best essay response under 1000 words, which responds to this year's prompt: Quotidian, everyday items often accompany significant life ...

College students face a common enemy. The blank page. The blinking cursor. Writing essays can feel like torture. Professors want polished academic writing. But who actually practices that in real life ...

These days, it seems like everyone has an opinion on everything. But what makes an opinion worth considering? Writer Roxane Gay has an idea. ROXANE GAY: Is the opinion well-articulated? Is the ...

In her introduction, Patchett writes of revisiting previously published essays in putting together the book. “Through these essays, I could watch myself grappling with the same themes in my writing ...

There’s antisemitism on the streets of major cities; a pervasive anti-Israel climate on college campuses; and an international effort to delegitimize Israel. Yet, despite all the bad, there’s still ...

Perhaps you, too, received a link to a 20,000-word story in Harper’s last January by the bestselling novelist and Nashville, Tennessee, bookseller Ann Patchett. It was a shaggy dog of a story by a ...

While the Second Vatican Council gave the Catholic Church a "beautiful" document on the priesthood, "it did not face the fundamental question" of the difference between Catholic and Protestant ...

Award-winning actress Gabrielle Union’s new book feels like catching up with an old friend. “You Got Anything Stronger?” is the sequel to Union’s 2017 collection of essays “We’re Going To Need More ...

Alton Brown, the celebrated presenter who brought humor, science, and history to the cooking show landscape with his program “Good Eats,” is tired of hearing “yes, chef.” “There cannot possibly be a ...