When you sit down to write a story, sometimes the hardest part can be just getting started. After all, the beginning of a tale ...

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An examination of New York’s Central Park and its history, set in the context of global climate change. Any history of Central Park necessarily spotlights Frederick Law Olmsted, who (with Calvert Vaux ...

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because some of the greatest writers in history have focused on this specific ...

Three educators at different points in their careers navigate life and work in a small town in Culbertson’s novel. After an entitled parent accosts her in her prep school’s parking lot (“he shoved me ...

Kelly opens by professing that he’s obsessed by the past—and that, being on the autism spectrum, “I develop an almost physical compulsion to know everything there is to know on a subject.” This lively ...

Mateo’s life is turned upside down the day U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents show up unsuccessfully seeking his Pa at his New York City bodega. The Garcias live in fear until the day ...

Ellie, the hardest-working elevator on 74th Street, spends her days cheerfully ferrying residents from floor to floor. She loves her job and the occupants she provides bespoke service to; she ...

A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, ...

Peterson, a scholar at the University of Michigan and author of The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin, writes that Amin’s 1971-79 rule generated massive paperwork, which Peterson and colleagues have ...