Writing and Writers

April 17, 2024

Rusty Foster Tracks Media Gossip From an Island in Maine

In a time when the headlines are dominated by wars and a divisive presidential campaign, the magazine-world rivalry between The Atlantic and The New Yorker doesn’t […]
April 12, 2024

Salman Rushdie Is Again the Toast of Literary Manhattan

Nearly two years after he was stabbed, he was in fine form as he greeted his fellow writers at a party celebrating his candid memoir, “Knife.” […]
March 21, 2024

The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance

Arturo Schomberg Eugene O’Neill Gwendolyn Bennett James Weldon Johnson Eva D. Bowles W.E.B. Du Bois Mary White Ovington Regina Anderson Carl Van Doren Charles S. Johnson […]
March 20, 2024

‘Modern Love Podcast’: Why Samin Nosrat Is Now ‘Fully YOLO’

Julia Botero, Reva Goldberg, Emily Lang and Dan Powell, Rowan Niemisto and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify “I want to look back and see a life […]
March 6, 2024

‘Modern Love Podcast’: Novelist Celeste Ng on the Big Power of Little Things

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Reva Goldberg, Emily Lang and Jen Poyant and Dan Powell, Pat McCusker and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify ‘I think there’s something about […]
January 5, 2024

In a Downtown New York Tradition, Cleansing the New Year With Poetry

On the first day of the year, over a thousand devotees passed through the old church where the Poetry Project has held its annual 12-hour marathon […]
December 11, 2023

David Yoon on How He Learned to Spend Money on Love

This essay is part of a Modern Love project on the intersection of money and relationships. I didn’t grow up in a romantic household. My parents […]
December 11, 2023

Melissa Febos on a Financially Controlling Boyfriend — and Girlfriend

This essay is part of a Modern Love project on the intersection of money and relationships. In my mid-20s, I was close to broke. Not struggling-to-keep-the-lights-on-broke, […]
September 17, 2023

The Stoic in the Bedroom

Learning to sleep under the stern gaze of Marcus Aurelius. “Absolutely not,” I told my husband from the bed as he tried to find the right […]
September 17, 2023

The Stoic in the Bedroom

Learning to sleep under the stern gaze of Marcus Aurelius. “Absolutely not,” I told my husband from the bed as he tried to find the right […]