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How a Classic ’80s Cartoon Got Rebooted for the 21st Century

Isaac Butler

March 01, 2021 12:00 PM

How Your Day Job Can Help Boost Your Creativity

Rumaan Alam

Feb 22, 2021 10:00 AM

What It Takes to Design a Successful Period Piece

June Thomas

Feb 17, 2021 9:28 AM

How the Pandemic Turned Us All Into Dancers

Isaac Butler

Feb 08, 2021 12:29 PM

Why You Aren’t Actually Losing Something by Reading Books in Translation

Rumaan Alam

Feb 01, 2021 10:00 AM

How Teaching Writing Makes Jonathan Lethem’s Own Writing Better

Isaac Butler

Jan 18, 2021 10:00 AM

Shattering the Most Enduring Myths About Sylvia Plath

Rumaan Alam

Jan 11, 2021 11:47 AM

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Stands Out as a Quintessential American Story

Rumaan Alam

Dec 21, 2020 10:00 AM

Singing Songs in Praise of Women Without Apology, in the Era of #MeToo and Trump

June Thomas

Dec 14, 2020 10:00 AM

Seeking the Truth About Trump’s America by Blurring Fact and Fiction

Isaac Butler

Dec 07, 2020 10:00 AM

What It’s Like to Make a TV Medical Drama in the Middle of the Pandemic

June Thomas

Nov 16, 2020 10:00 AM

A Poet Illustrates What It Feels Like to Cross the Border as a Child

Rumaan Alam

Nov 09, 2020 10:00 AM

What Makes Jane Lynch’s Characters Pop Onscreen

June Thomas

Nov 02, 2020 10:00 AM

Understanding the World’s Conflicts Through Comics

Isaac Butler

Oct 26, 2020 10:00 AM

How Hamilton Got Its Iconic Sound

Isaac Butler

Oct 19, 2020 10:00 AM

How a Novelist Brings Fictional Characters to Life

June Thomas

Oct 12, 2020 10:00 AM

The Writer-Director of Sneakers Explains Why the Movie Was Nine Years in the Making

Isaac Butler

Oct 05, 2020 10:00 AM

What Is the Point of Literary Criticism?

Rumaan Alam

Sept 28, 2020 4:34 PM

Combine Writing, Photography, and Design. That’s Scrapbooking.

June Thomas

Sept 21, 2020 10:00 AM

How a Gig at SNL Changed One Costume Designer’s Work Habits

Isaac Butler

Sept 14, 2020 10:00 AM

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