Ellen Blum Barish (C81, GJ84) is a Chicago-area writer and adjunct writing instructor at Northwestern. Tell us what you think. E-mail comments or questions to the editors at [email protected].

I read so much misguided press and frantic conversations about ChatGPT and its clones writing papers for high school and college students that it makes me wonder how so many “literates” and arguably ...

Perhaps you’re less interested in breaking news and more interested in breaking boundaries and writing creatively. Fortunately, UChicago has several publications that feature students’ creative essays ...

Thirteen years ago, at the height of the June Virginia heat, we stood in front of our family and friends and repeated these traditional vows to each other, “To have and to hold from this day forward, ...

One of the most popular posts I’ve written for my Psychology Today, Soul Console, is “How to Make Writing a Sacred Practice With ‘Scriptio Divina.’” Scriptio divina is a modern twist on an ancient ...