When Tatiana Schlossberg submitted an essay to The New Yorker, it had not been assigned or even expected. It was accepted ...

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Samantha Fulnecky, a 20-year-old junior, penned the provocative essay in late November and presented a faith-fueled argument ...

In January, I’ll teach another version of my favorite class, “Creative Critical Writing,” a graduate writing workshop ...

From Zadie Smith's inconsistent collection of essays to Ocean Vuong's clunky novel, the literary world hasn't been without ...

Read about how Americans who were raised Catholic experienced religion as kids, as well as their reasons for staying in or leaving the faith.

There’s nothing quite as motivating as reverse psychology, is there? Tell a person to do something, and you have a 50/50 chance of them meeting your request. Tell someone, “Ah, well, you wouldn’t be ...

Mo Marie Lauyanne Kouame, 18, dreams of being an aerospace engineer and building spacecraft. This fall, she applied to MIT, Princeton, and Columbia. For one college essay, she wrote about being ...

Samantha Fulnecky, a psychology junior at the University of Oklahoma, has gained national attention after receiving a zero grade for citing the Bible in an opinion-based essay on gender binary labels.

A graduate instructor at the University of Oklahoma was placed on leave after giving a student a failing grade for rejecting the notion that someone’s identity can fall outside of the two genders ...

A graduate student instructor at the University of Oklahoma was placed on administrative leave after a student filed a discrimination complaint. The student, Samantha Fulnecky, claims she received a ...

Division on whether an OU student should have received a zero on her essay, but most agreed that her free speech rights had not been violated.