Eight years ago, I first encountered the writings of Jhumpa Lahiri. Last Monday, Lahiri visited Brown to lead an undergraduate seminar and participate in a public conversation. My experience that ...

One of my personal mantras about writing is that writing is thinking. Writing involves both the expression and the exploration of an idea, where the writing itself changes the shape of the original ...

Of all the pearls of wisdom I’ve picked up over the years, among the most valuable consists of just three words: intuition is bias. The Romantic poets may have believed that intuition offers special ...

A common refrain from writers on Twitter is that writing is hard. Often, this insight is accompanied by the rueful observation that tweeting is easy. This is, of course, the difference between ...

Today is National Handwriting Day! When you think of handwriting, you may think of the way you write your name or your penmanship during notetaking but what about the way you write? In today’s time, ...