Reading & Writing
Essays, literature, criticism, and style guides.
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Sites in this branch
- Aeon freeEssays that are paced like essays, edited like essays, and still worth reading years later. Visit site
- JSTOR Daily freeA rare general-interest publication that consistently links the present back to real scholarship. Visit site
- Longreads freeA reliable route to substantial journalism and personal essays without making discovery itself exhausting. Visit site
- Public Books freeCriticism for readers who want intelligence on the page, not hot takes wearing academic clothing. Visit site
- The Marginalian freeAn idiosyncratic reading life turned into a public archive, best enjoyed when you want thinking rather than updates. Visit site
- Electric Literature freeContemporary literary coverage with enough actual editorial shape to rise above generic book culture chatter. Visit site
- Literary Hub freeA broad literary publication that earns the breadth by publishing interviews, excerpts, and criticism with texture. Visit site
- Poetry Foundation freeA straightforward poetry archive that remains worth visiting when you want the poem, not content around it. Visit site
- The classics in simple, durable form, which matters more than elegant branding ever could. Visit site
- The Paris Review freeThe interviews alone justify bookmarking it, and the rest of the archive is not ornamental either. Visit site
- Merriam-Webster freeReliable dictionary work with etymology, usage notes, and enough example sentences to settle the argument. Visit site
- Purdue OWL freeUnglamorous, dependable, and still one of the fastest ways to settle a citation or grammar question. Visit site