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Nell Greenfieldboyce discusses her new book Transient and Strange, the intimacy of the essays and the science that inspired them.

In her early days, freelancer Gloria Dickie aimed high, pitching her dream publication first, as well as offering newsier stories and short features instead of long-form. The formula worked, leading to assignments, a book project and a prestigious staff job. Freelance Files Co-Editor Christine Woodside spoke with Dickie about the lessons of a life as an independent. Plus, a

Binyavanga Wainaina attacked insulting clichés in the essay, “How to Write About Africa,” in 2005. In a posthumous collection of the same name, his range as a writer is on display.

The problem was, like many novelists before him, Roth – all too aware of the divergent opinions – wanted to control his legacy. So he first recruited as his biographer a friend he thought pliable, Ross Miller, nephew of the playwright Arthur, but the arrangement twice came to an end after Roth criticised his research methods. Roth even wrote a full-length book entitled Notes for My Biographer, mostly devoted to rebutting the allegations made by Roth’s former wife Claire Bloom in her incendiary memoir Leaving A Doll’s House. He considered publishing the book then decided to keep it a...

The American Author Who Fell in Love With the Greek Language Credit: Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia/Illustration: Greek Reporter Mary Norris is an American author who learned the Greek language during her twenty-four-year career at the famous ” New Yorker’‘ magazine. In 2019 she published her new book ”Greek to Me – Adventures of the Comma Queen,” where she narrates the extraordinary adventure she undertook when she decided to learn the Greek language. ” width=”1080″> ‘The New Yorker’‘ in the late 1970s. Her father, she explains, was a pragmatic man and did no...