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What Not To Write On Your Security Clearance Form
A classic 1988 list of hilariously honest answers people wrote on government security clearance forms, preserved on the…
What the Romans Found Funny
An essay on the comedies of Plautus and Terence, explaining the jokes, farce and wordplay that made Roman audiences laug…
Whiting
A three-minute short story by Deesha Philyaw told through six Sunday breakfasts of fried whiting that a father cooks for…
Who Are Nerds
A funny, sharp essay by Rosa Lyster in the independent magazine Popula about her long-running irritation with nerds and…
Why Didn't Gandalf Own a Colt .45?
A long, playful essay asking why Middle-earth never had an industrial revolution, using real economic history to examine…
Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks
Philosopher Joseph Heath's essay on Iain M. Banks's Culture novels and why this post-scarcity utopia works as a vision o…
Why We Need a Literary Canon
An essay by Joshua Fagan arguing for the enduring value of preserving the best of human thought and expression in a shar…
Wigleaf
A flash fiction journal known for its annual Top 50 Very Short Fictions list, curating some of the best micro-stories pu…
Will Eisner - Lambiek Comiclopedia
The Lambiek Comiclopedia biography of Will Eisner, pioneer of the graphic novel and creator of The Spirit, with illustra…
William Faulkner's Nobel Banquet Speech
The text of William Faulkner's 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature banquet speech, a short address on the writer's duty and t…
Windows
Michael A. Gonzales recalls a 1970s Harlem childhood of TV reruns and watching the neighborhood from the window, a story…
Words Without Borders
A magazine devoted to international literature in English translation, publishing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from w…
World Wide Words
A meticulously researched site exploring the origins and byways of English words and phrases, written by a former dictio…
Worldizing
An explainer of worldizing, Walter Murch's technique of replaying recorded sound through speakers in real spaces and re-…
Writer's Digest
A veteran magazine for working and aspiring writers offering craft advice, market listings, and interviews about the fic…
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You're Wrong About Tidal-Locking
A worldbuilder's myth-busting tour of tidal locking, explaining what it really does to planets and moons and why so many…
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