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Where to start with the writing of Jamaica Kincaid.
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Brittany Allen
| October 16, 2025
Eli Rallo Is Totally Fine—Until She’s Not
The Author and Content Creator on Avoiding the OB-GYN, OCD Obsessions, and Pretending to Be Okay
By
Eli Rallo
| October 15, 2025
Akwaeke Emezi on the Beauty
of Nothing
“The beauty is that it will all end, and that is the most terrible beauty of all.”
By
Akwaeke Emezi
| August 18, 2025
4Columns is closing up shop. Here are 10 unmissable pieces from their archives.
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Brittany Allen
| July 24, 2025
Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White
“I think writing is mainly work.”
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Sam Weller
| July 11, 2025
Genre is a Container, Not a Cage, a Tool, Not a Limitation
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Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante
| July 11, 2025
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“Sexting is Roleplay About Desire,” a Prose Poem by Vera Blossom
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Vera Blossom
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Naomi Cohn
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On the Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham
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Elias Altman
| October 7, 2024
As a Writer, You Can Never Collect Too Many Endings
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By
Steve Edwards
| August 27, 2024
Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin’s Enduring, International Influence
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By
Caoilinn Hughes
| August 2, 2024
Elisa Gabbert on the Philosophy and Process Behind the Poem and the Essay
Sarah Viren Talks to the Author of “Any Person is the Only Self”
By
Sarah Viren
| June 12, 2024
Lilly Dancyger on How to Support a Friend Through Grief
“Remember that there’s nothing you can say to make it better. Say only that you’re so sorry, so so sorry.”
By
Lilly Dancyger
| May 14, 2024
A Different Kind of Dad Book: Lucas Mann on Fatherhood, Writing, and the Essay as an Act of Care
The Author of “Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances” in Talks to Brian Gresko
By
Brian Gresko
| May 9, 2024
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7 Novels That Explore Motherhood's Complexities
November 4, 2025
by
Donna Freitas
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by
Jenna Satterthwaite
The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in Fiction
November 4, 2025
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Christina Henry
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"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"