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On the novelist’s flaws, foibles & fallings-out.

Didn’t they learn anything in 2016?

In her new novel set at a headache clinic, The Pain of Pleasure, the author explores how pain does (and does not) define us. Here, she tells Esquire how storytelling can be a kind of remedy.

Best known for her controversial novels featuring extreme situations and characters, A.M. Homes discusses her most recent book, The Unfolding, and her r…

“Sometimes I want a moment of recklessness, or something altogether new,” the main character of the story “Hangnails, and Other Diseases” declares. Some of Them Will Carry Me, the debut story collection by Giada Scodellaro offers readers both; Scodellaro’s narrative precision and control excavate the epic from small moments. Again and again, the stories entreat: Do not be fooled by the seemingly mundane.

This week’s Young Writers Project entry is “Somewhere presently” by Emilia Williams, 16, of Thetford Center. Artwork is by Roma Vallabhaneni, 16, of Essex.

Thanks to WFMT’s online archive of the “Studs Terkel Program,” we can now travel back in time and visit many of those past days.

Elissa Altman on laughter and drink.

Wants by Grace Paley — I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the...

Judith Herman’s seminal book “Trauma and Recovery” created a template for her field. Three decades later, she’s published a follow-up to explain how survivors’ needs are still misunderstood.