Writing for the public as an academic has brought me great joy. It’s been a way to explore topics in which I was not an expert, look at my own field in new ways, and keep publishing despite a heavy ...

Laura S. Veira-Ramirez ’20, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a joint concentrator in History and Literature and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Leverett House. Her column appears on alternate ...

For many people, just the thought of sitting down in front of a blank screen with the expectation of producing sentences that deliver a message or tell a story produces tremendous anxiety. It’s a ...

Every now and then I pause when reviewing cover letters and resumes from my clients, students, or job candidates, and wonder: have they ever read an article, website, or book about how to write a ...

There is no single word to describe the fear of writing a Health and Fitness column. At least not yet. However, there is a word for the fear of writing (graphophobia), the fear of words (logophobia) ...

For most of the 1980s I was a poor graduate student, but thanks to two of my mentors I had the cultural life of a prince. My dissertation director loved George Balanchine and the ballet, and would ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. This month’s question regarding life balance—how we deal with writer’s block—started me ...

The United Kingdom (UK) has gone a long way to eradicate racism in the work place, but unfortunately Africans know too well, that it is still there. Your accent, the colour of your skin stand you out, ...

“You are likely your own cruelest reader,” says one of our advice columnists. Rembrandt’s “Portrait of a Scholar” (1631) at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.Credit... Supported by ...