Conversation Pieces
Austen’s sparing use of attributions is also a sign of her confidence in her art. She dispensed with unnecessary scaffolding.
Cormac McCarthy’s Poetics of Being
Cormac McCarthy is provoking us more than we may realize.
The Art of Prediction and the Arc of the Moral Universe
Plausible forecasts may help us avert the worst political calamities.
Published!
The official publication day came and went. I felt weirdly out of it, waiting for something I had anticipated for half my life and worked toward unremittingly.
Starting Out
Posted on June 1, 2023
Image: THR illustration/The Historic New Orleans Collection.
When the going was good for a fledgling writer.
The Art of Compression
Posted on May 31, 2023
Image: Revenge Kid and Tengu Monster (detail), 1881, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Taiso) (1839-1892).
The very short story can conjure a fiction out of almost nothing.