This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Article continues after advertisement Very often one finds literary editors, critics, and some fiction writers talking about novels as if they were mechanical things, finely, or not so finely tooled machines designed to impart a multilayered series of events in which certain human beings, their…
The White House released a three-page report from President Trump’s physician late Friday detailing the results of his physical exam at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center earlier this week. Mr. Trump’s doctors in the past have released positive health reports that stress the president’s excellent condition and good health habits. Friday’s report, written by…
Natasha Walter is halfway through explaining how she came to be politically radicalised when a young woman approaches the cafe table. We two middle-aged women look like “the most trustworthy people here,” she says, so could we watch her baby while she grabs a coffee? Like the solid citizen she is, Walter doesn’t take her…
