In an essay shared with the launch, Dryhurst elaborates the motivations behind the project, writing that Saga is designed to fight the exploitation of artists by "[challenging] the dominant mode of the web, a landscape where platforms and syndicators profit from fixed work that people share for free".
In another installment in which we ask writers to reflect on their own work, we had B.C. Edwards, author of this past Sunday's Lives essay, share with us the most helpful piece of writing advice he ever received.
Coates's fury is more controlled than Lee's, but it's equally sincere, and his essay shares with Bamboozled the central imperative to look directly into the heart of past racial sins in order to plot a productive way forward.
Most of the responses to Kymlicka's essay share his view that the supposed progressive's dilemma needs to be critically re-examined.
Janet Malcolm's Forty-One False Starts (Granta) provides a masterclass on the art of the essay from one of its most formidable living practitioners – often, as with the title essay, by sharing object lessons in failure.
We asked Tony Gervino, author of this week's Lives essay, to share with us the most helpful piece of writing advice he ever received.
IN THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING last Halloween, Maria Devlin and her mother, Donna, were both wide awake in their apartment in Bronxville, N.Y., scanning an essay that shared Maria's most profound thoughts on "one or two of her principal intellectual interests".
Garrett Hardin called his famous 1968 essay on shared resources "The Tragedy of the Commons".
In a clear-eyed and informative essay, he shares some key insights into how to successfully make that change.
An excerpt from the essay he shared with his students: .
