The writer Ashley C. Ford and her mentor, Roxane Gay, discuss the professional advice they’ve gotten and how to cope with criticism.

An expert on the National Health Service says the reason America doesn’t have universal coverage might be a difference in mind-set.

Society tells us we should have a partner—but we shouldn’t want one.

If the book industry is a walled garden, the site is a ladder.

Or, how Bob Barker ruined my wedding

… where misspelled URLs are auctioned off for tens of thousands of dollars.