Writers Read

George Packer writes about foreign affairs, politics, and books for The New Yorker 's Interesting Times blog. Last week I asked him wha...

Trinie Dalton is the author of the short story collection Wide Eyed (Akashic) and co-editor of Dear New Girl Or Whatever Your Name Is (McS...

Kenneth Gross , Professor of English at the University of Rochester, is the author, most recently, of Shylock Is Shakespeare . I recently a...

Anne Fadiman is the author, most recently, of At Large and At Small , a collection of essays on ice cream, butterflies, and Samuel Taylor C...

Robert H. Frank is the H. J. Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell Unive...

Mark Oppenheimer is the coordinator of the Yale Journalism Initiative and the author of two books: Knocking on Heaven's Do...

Jonathan Stroud is the author of the Bartimaeus Trilogy and other books . After I read Susan O'Doherty's enthusiastic praise for S...

Alan Michael Parker 's five collections of poems include the forthcoming Elephants & Butterflies . He teaches at Davidson College an...

Arthur Allen is a Washington-based journalist who has written for the New York Times Magazine , The New Republic , the Washington Post , The...

Amy Zegart is an Associate Professor at UCLA's School of Public Affairs, where she teaches courses in U.S. foreign policy and public ma...