Last night, NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on the surface of Mars, beginning its year long exploration of the planet. The Guardian has compiled a short history of Mars musing, which highlights…
The simple fact that you are no longer an adolescent, shouldn’t mean that you are obliged to forgo the thrill of the sext. Thanks to Eva Wiseman, the techo-sexual generational…
The Guardian profiles a series of computer applications meant to motivate authors through the doldrums of writer’s block. ‘Write or Die’ (whose slightly menacing slogan is “putting the ‘Prod’ back…
“Just as women don’t hate Samantha Brick for being beautiful, and feminism hasn’t ruined anyone’s chances to be married, and no one thinks mothers don’t work, and there is no…
“I feel totally curious and alive and in control. And almost… magnificent, when I write.” The Guardian converses with Toni Morrison about writing from within, the death of her son,…
I’ve often thought writing takes equal parts alienation and ego, one to see things and the other to think your vision warrants recording. But, after reading Craig Taylor’s Londoners, I…
“This idea of the older generation as strange, insistent shadows moving closer and closer to substance as time went on, the idea that I was writing, pushing myself to work,…
A British thinktank, the New Economics Foundation, is advocating for a shorter work week as a cure for Britain’s economic, social, and environmental woes. The economists argue that the solution…
Stop The War: A Graphic History captures the images—photographs, posters, graphics, cartoons and art—of a decade’s worth of the stop the war movement in the UK. The Guardian gives us…
“For me, writing longhand is an utterly personal task where the outer world is closed off, just my thoughts and the movement of my hand across the page to keep…
Douglas Coupland’s new book, Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People, is comprised of seven contemporary fairytales illustrated by Graham Roumieu. The Guardian gives us a sneak peek with a slide-show…