James Frey’s New Novel, “Next to Heaven” Is as Bad as It Sounds

The author page of “Next to Heaven,” James Frey’s new novel, breathlessly notes that Frey “was called America’s Most Notorious Author by Time Magazine and the Bad Boy of American …

By age three, your authoritarian should be able to blame juice spills on political enemies, such as a baby sibling or a weird uncle. If he or she (but likely …

Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. Photograph by Christopher Michel, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. I remember the taste of Mr. Bubble. I know the flavor of Milk-Bones. While …

Photo by Call Me Fred on Unsplash Today’s post is by editor and book coach Stephanie Mitchell. Is it too much to hope that your memoir can have a concrete …

“To have chosen such a life, as opposed to having been drugged or crimped or hoaxed aboard, was almost defiant in its sense of alienation,” Geoffrey Wolff writes in his …

Like a fool, I used to resist, but no more. In the past, I railed against the rise of AI. I preached small-minded sermons to students who had to sit …

All photos courtesy of the author. The middle of nowhere, a hole-in-the-wall, flyover counties—even the U.S. Census Bureau defines rurality as a type of absence: “all areas not classified as …

After setting up shop in 11 new states, lender’s “strategic expansion into carefully identified markets nationwide” will include 18 additional states before next year’s spring homebuying season.

Their preliminary results were “sobering,” according to a June report by the University of Chicago Education And Learning Lab and MDRC, a research study organization. The scientists located that tutoring …