Identifying with an activity is different from actually doing it. For example, 49% of Americans play video games, but only 10% identify as gamers. According to a recent survey we conducted, there’s ...

No one has written for the Reader longer than Michael Miner. No one could have. He had a story in the very first issue, and here he is today, with the lead piece 40 years later. For most of his Reader ...

As a copyeditor before I became a writer, I can offer Helen Betya Rubinstein (“Notable & Quotable: Copyediting,” Feb. 1) the first rule of effective nonfiction writing: Never let the reader be ...

There’s no question that it takes a village to make a novel a success, no matter how wonderful the writing and the story. I started building a tribe that would help to define me as a novelist, in my ...