Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create distance from it.

Wendell Berry’s instructions to rural writers to move back home for renewed artistic inspiration and fulfillment has been followed nearly to the point of cliché. The Kentucky poet, who is the urban ...

At the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, the author of The Anthropologist spoke about her pared back prose and about writing ...