Point of Departure

Academics Anonymous

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Eye of Newt

By William Deresiewicz | Friday, June 1, 2012

Mr. Zinsser, I Presume

By Michael Dirda | Thursday, March 1, 2012

The Grammarian Was a He

By Jessica Love | Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The Moon

By Priscilla Long | Thursday, August 25, 2011

Habit

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Friday, June 3, 2011

The True Church

By William Deresiewicz | Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Why I Don’t Give Tips on How to Write

By William Zinsser | Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Living Outside History

By Noel Polk | Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Lost Classics

An address delivered in 2009 to graduates in classics at UC Berkeley

By Daniel Mendelsohn | Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Historians and Nature

By Donald Worster | Monday, March 1, 2010

Writing English as a Second Language

By William Zinsser | Tuesday, December 1, 2009

What’s Wrong (and Right) with Science Journalism

Remarks to the University of Iowa on October 8, 2008, for the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry

By David Brown | Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Extralocal History

By Jared Farmer | Monday, June 1, 2009

Franklin in Paris

By Stacy Schiff | Sunday, March 1, 2009

Censorship in France

By Hazel Rowley | Monday, December 1, 2008

America’s Dark Page

By Marcus Rediker | Monday, September 1, 2008

The Art of Surprise

By Steve Vineberg | Sunday, June 1, 2008

The Lessons of Likeness

By Allan Gurganus | Saturday, March 1, 2008

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