Northwestern Engineering’s Barry Nelson has won the 2024 Saul Gass Expository Writing Award, given by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Nelson, Walter P.

Three pairs of writers revised two 400- word passages from a high school history text in an effort to make the passages more comprehensible and more memorable. Two of the writers were text linguists, ...

Getting words onto a page can be a painful process. Authors of all abilities, help is within reach! By Judith Newman “Writing is easy,” the sportswriter Red Smith famously said. “I just open a vein ...

Creative artificial intelligence provokes a strange mixture of contempt and dread. People say things such as “AI art is garbage” and “It’s plagiarism,” but also “AI art is going to destroy creativity ...

Not long after the National Endowment for the Arts canceled a $25,000 grant to his organization, Ilan Stavans, founder of Massachusetts-based nonprofit publisher Restless Books, began to worry about ...

“It starts as a mist taking over my world,” reads the start of “Hazy,” the opening essay in Joshua James Amberson’s new collection, Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes (Perfect Day Publishing, 224 ...

Ms. O’Rourke is the executive editor of The Yale Review and a professor of creative writing at Yale University. July 18, 2025 When I first told ChatGPT who I was, it sent a gushing reply: “Oh wow — it ...

A new author income study released by the Authors Guild provides a dizzying array of numbers and breakdowns about how all types of authors—traditionally published and self-published, full-time and ...