“I didn’t ever feel before I had the courage to say that, and it was something that I knew for decades,” Morris tells PEOPLE of of coming out as bisexual Maren Morris. Photo: Ashley Osborn Maren Morris is opening up about the art of self discovery. In this week’s issue of PEOPLE, the music superstar […]
Tomyris, warrior queen of the Massagetae tribespeople (here celebrated centuries later later) is but one of the classical figures celebrated by the historian Daisy Dunn THE MISSING THREAD: A Women’s History of the Ancient World , by Daisy Dunn Feminist retellings of classical myth and history are having a moment . This is partly a […]
My five-year-old and I were reading Charlotte’s Web at bedtime recently when we reached what constituted her—and, presumably, many children’s—first literary fainting episode. It occurs after Wilbur the pig, getting loaded into a truck to head to the fair, hears what is doubtless the most terrifying sentence ever uttered within porcine earshot: “You’ll get some […]
Writing advice from writer George RR Martin Did you know that George RR Martin, the mastermind behind the epic “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, often writes multiple chapters for each character consecutively? This non-linear approach helps him maintain a consistent character voice and reduces writer fatigue. Have you ever wondered how George RR […]
In the “Simpsons” episode “Homer Simpson, This is Your Wife” (March 26, 2006), Homer (Dan Castellaneta) becomes obsessed with the crisp images on an HDTV and decides he has to purchase one. To get the money, he enlists his family into a reality TV series called “Mother Flippers,” wherein the matriarchs of two families swap […]
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” –Samuel Johnson * Hangings will do that sort of thing: concentrate the mind. But how about a moral hanging? Does it concentrate the mind? And what is a moral hanging anyway? First things first. […]
SCATTERED SNOWS, TO THE NORTH , by Carl Phillips Some poets seek topics never before explored. Others look around and see what seems constant, from antiquity to today: autumn and winter; aging and death; erotic desire, and our regret if it fades. Carl Phillips belongs to that second group. He writes about those simplest, oldest […]
Natalie Anastasia Davies will produce poetry inspired by the site and its ancient stones. Natalie Anastasia Davies to immerse herself in dramatic North Yorkshire landscape for the next few months As the sun beats down on Brimham Rocks, Natalie Anastasia Davies is surveying the landscape; the ancient stones scattered across the 50-acre site look as […]
Toni Morrison photographed by Jill Krementz in her office at Random House in New York City on February 13, 1974 (© Jill Krementz; image courtesy the photographer) She had just died, and I couldn’t stop looking at a photograph of her. She held me there: in her Random House office in 1974, outstretched arms, open […]
Find out how a determined mom helped her book-loving son with autism learn to write. My son, Antariksh, is on the autism spectrum and was diagnosed with spastic cerebral palsy at the age of four. He is one of my twins. After birth all his milestones were late—in fact, very late, since the children were […]
