Jia Tolentino, guest editor of “The Best American Essays 2025,” reflects on essays, community and life in Brooklyn.

Essays are easy. Fiction is hard,” says British writer Zadie Smith in an interview reproduced in Dead and Alive, her fourth ...

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Finals season always seems to arrive with a stack of essays that grows faster than my ability to write them.  Even as a ...

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War on Science takes aim at science’s global culture wars. Edited by controversial physicist Lawrence Krauss, it argues ...

For Miami Art Week, Devlin has created an open-air installation for Faena Art that invites the public to turn her personal ...

Students applying to college know they can't—or at least shouldn't—use AI chatbots to write their essays and personal ...