Carmen Maria Machado on the alchemy by which a strange, bright, angry young woman becomes an ambitionless, anodyne, doomed character.

Having marinated in the world of men for nearly two decades, Carmen Maria Machado revisits ‘The Awakening’ and feels the depth of Edna’s suffering.

Carmen Maria Machado talks to ‘Aerialists’ author Mark Mayer about rabbits, Mavis Gallant, and the long tradition of circus fiction.

In our series Writers’ Fridges, we bring you snapshots of the abyss that writers stare into most frequently: their refrigerators.     What remains: dilly beans, which remain my greatest pleasure, pickled garlic cloves and capers and oliv…

Warning: explicit images after the jump. Now that Game of Thrones has aired its second season, there has been no shortage of commentary about the amount of skin and sex on the Emmy-winning HBO drama. Viewers have taken notice of the gratuitous nu…