How a weekly memoir writing group at the Motion Picture Television Fund became a creative outlet and surrogate family for its ...

Tove Jansson returned from a U.S. trip with a new perspective on home—and an enduring novel about American retirees.

I was used to a disembodied way of working: identify a philosophical problem, then study it. What could spending time with a ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

But after his fall, beginning in his first days in the hospital, Kureishi started to write furiously. A flurry of ...

Who better to quote about this long process than Herman Melville, author of “Moby Dick,” which many critics consider the ...