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The most urgent writers of today are Ralph Ellison, Joan Didion, Thomas Pynchon, and Elizabeth Bishop

Her new novel investigates the eternal.

Nature is a key character in crime writing, from Ross Macdonald to Ian Rankin and Jane Harper

"All the Names" is a 1997 novel by Portuguese author Jose Saramago, originally in Portuguese as "Todos os Nomos", and released in E...

Today's Water Cooler

For players interested in the revival of prehistoric pokemon in the Generation IV remake that is Pokemon Shining Pearl, Shieldon is the pokemon that

Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl's Grand Underground is an interesting zone with tons of characters. Here's how to navigate it.

"All the Names" is a 1997 novel by Portuguese author Jose Saramago, originally in Portuguese as "Todos os Nomos", and released in E...

"All the Names" is a 1997 novel by Portuguese author Jose Saramago, originally in Portuguese as "Todos os Nomos", and released in E...

, Notes from Underground  The muses don’t sing to cover letter writers—they’re busy with the poets. But me? I transact exclusively in unloved prose. No one loves cover letters, but everyone needs a job. So my business, editing them, always booms. My process may prove unorthodox, so let me offer a disclaimer before we begin. In the butchery of cover letter editing, one removes metaphors with chainsaws, cauterizes complexity with hot iron, and amputates anything more ambiguous than a grunt...