On a gray November morning, stacks of essays sat on an admissions counselor’s desk at a New England liberal arts college. She ...

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In Patricia Lockwood’s new novel, the main character gets so ill that she wonders whether she’s become a different person.

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Diane DiMassa’s “homicidal lesbian terrorist” was a star of underground comics in the nineties, but her “rage therapy” has ...

In an essay about the work of Daphne du Maurier, master of horror Stephen King claims that most stories can’t be spoiled.

"My process is... almost word vomit or a purge out of my brain, and then you mold it from there," Zosia Mamet tells Newsweek.

My goal was to publish one short, impactful, overwrought piece a week. Although I started strong, I eventually dipped to one ...

The Constitution is lauded as the cornerstone of our democracy. But what if it’s the reason we don’t actually have one?