Writer Who Accuses Trump of Raping Her Seeks His DNA

JENNIFER PELTZ / The Associated Press Jan 30, 2020 Lawyers for E. Jean Carroll say the president's sample would be compared to "unidentified male DNA" on a dress she wore in 1990s encounter. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Land Between Two Rivers

Elaine Margolin / Truthdig Mar 2, 2018 Tom Sleigh travels to war zones and refugee camps, yet views intervention on his part as transgression. When does passivity become complicity? Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Warning on the Dangers of Capitalism (Video)

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Jan 24, 2018 "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings," the science fiction writer said in a 2014 speech. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges: Writing as Resistance (Video)

Staff / Truthdig and Chris Hedges Nov 28, 2017 The Truthdig columnist delves into his own journey as an author and educator during a recent speech. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Author Rebecca Carroll on Identity and the ‘Monolith of Blackness’ (Audio and Transcript)

BLANK Jun 30, 2017 In this week’s “Scheer Intelligence,” Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer and Carroll discuss the climate for black writers. Dig deeper ( 19 Min. Read )

Writing as Resistance

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jul 18, 2016 Doomed writers buried their accounts of the Warsaw ghetto in the hope that they could teach whoever unearthed the documents about good, evil, indifference and the importance of the truth as an act of resistance They have left us a trove of papers on how to construct a life of meaning Doomed writers buried their accounts of the Warsaw ghetto in the hope that they could teach whoever unearthed the documents about good, evil, indifference and the importance of the truth as an act of resistance. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

600 U.S. Writers Sign Open Letter Denouncing Donald Trump

Staff / Truthdig May 27, 2016 Noting that they are “aware of the many ways that language can be abused in the name of power,” hundreds of writers expressed their opposition to a possible Trump presidency. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Instant Gratification Culture Is Killing Fine Writers

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 5, 2015 A sometimes acrid essay by an author and former creative writing professor delivers some tough love to people hoping to become published writers. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Empty Room

Jean Randich / Truthdig Jun 6, 2014 Lauren B. Davis' novel dissects the patterns of fear, denial, lies and justification that propel an alcoholic further into an addiction that destroys everything she has and is. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Gabriel García Márquez

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Free Homes for Writers in Detroit? (Video)

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 26, 2013 Directors of the nonprofit Write A House are bent on fixing up some portion of the Michigan city's thousands and thousands of vacant and blighted homes and handing them over to writers for virtually nothing, forever. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Dave Eggers on Writers’ Fears of the NSA

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 22, 2013 Of more than 500 writers polled by PEN International, a writers rights and advocacy group, 16 percent said knowledge of NSA surveillance led them to abandon writing projects they thought could attract unwanted government attention. An additional 11 percent said they've "seriously considered it." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )