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Poverty Touches Not Just Pocketbooks, but Mental Health
Full Episode
Arts, Culture & Media
The Writer’s Journey
Arts, Culture & Media
Disappearing Drafts
Arts, Culture & Media
Disappearing Drafts
Arts, Culture & Media
Soaring
Arts, Culture & Media
Writing Advice From David Sedaris
Arts, Culture & Media
Peter Carey: From Outback Outlaws to Militant Hackers
Arts, Culture & Media
Kurt’s Five Lessons of Comedy
Arts, Culture & Media
Mary Jo Bang: Time Is Almost Up
Arts, Culture & Media
Annie Baker’s Agonies of Small Talk
Arts, Culture & Media
Hilary Mantel’s Henry VIII is a Monster for All Seasons
Arts, Culture & Media
Finishing the Book, Finally
Arts, Culture & Media
“Alpha”
Arts, Culture & Media
The Substitute
Arts, Culture & Media
The End of “The Road”
Arts, Culture & Media
Colson Whitehead Goes Zombie
The Elements of Style
Arts
Why ‘The Elements of Style’ is out of style
An illustration image shows the new Latin-based Kazakh alphabet published in a newspaper in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Oct. 27, 2017.
Culture
Kazakhstan’s switch from Cyrillic to Latin is about more than just alphabets
a boy shows off his handwriting practice
Education
To empower students with effective writing skills, handwriting matters
Veep actor Matt Walsh
Arts
How to talk like a TV writer, as explained by David Mandel of ‘Veep’
Spooky Scary Studio 360: How to Make Your Skeleton Scary
Full Episode
Brit Bennett on Church, Racism, and Her Novel “The Mothers”
Full Episode
360 Extra: So Long, Edward Albee
Full Episode
College papers
Education
Are college papers a waste?
Handwriting
Education
Close your laptop. Handwriting could make you smarter.
Teenagers film video in Argentina. A new study says that adolescents seem to have become more creative in visual arts.
Arts, Culture & Media
A new study says your kids might not be so boring after all
Diversifying the Writer’s Room: Playwright Tanya Saracho on Writing for Television
Full Episode
Arts, Culture & Media
Here’s what we lost when we stopped writing letters
Arts, Culture & Media
Here’s what we lost when we stopped writing letters
Arts, Culture & Media
After The Office, actor B.J. Novak found his voice in short stories
Ann Morgan reading
Arts, Culture & Media
One reader, 197 books, one year to finish them all
Global Politics
Handwriting a much debated window into people’s inner thoughts — maybe
Lifestyle & Belief
Spanish priest commissions graffiti work to brighten up his church
Arts, Culture & Media
How Ancient Graffiti Might Be More Familiar Than You Realize
Arts, Culture & Media
How an American Linguist Helped Unlock the Secrets of Linear B
The World in Words
Penmanship and Personality: An Ode to the Handwritten Note
The Desire to Be Hip Is Making All Our Cities the Same
Arts, Culture & Media
Spanish Priest Commissions Graffiti for Church
Global Politics
Sympathy for the Loser: A Greeting Card Emergency
Conflict & Justice
The Arab Spring Brings Wave of Graffiti Art
Tagging Dakar
Global Politics
Brazil’s Poor Make Themselves Visible Through Graffiti
Arts, Culture & Media
Slideshow: Graffiti Artists of Kabul
Arts, Culture & Media
Seeking Help with Ancient Scrolls
Conflict & Justice
Graffiti: Art or Vandalism?
Nature Writing No More
Utah Testimony
California Lawyers Want Recycled Briefs
Science Note/Saved By a Whisker
Writer on the Rocks
Arts, Culture & Media
Greeting Card Emergency
Arts, Culture & Media
Diagnosing literature
Environment
Literacy Group Ignites Research on Infant Language Development
Arts, Culture & Media
A contest to best the worst book opener (‘It was a dark and stormy night…’)
Arts, Culture & Media
Geo answer
Arts, Culture & Media
Analyzing ancient egyptian paperwork