Shortly after graduating with a master’s in journalism from New York University in 2011, Marni Chan, 39, landed a job as a culture editor at Mic, then a buzzy digital publication. As someone who’d ...

At some point, I noticed I was repeating the same routine every week. None of the stuff I was doing was difficult, but it was a collection of small chores that kept interrupting real work. I'd have to ...

Dominique Charpin, trans from the French by Jane Marie Todd, Harvard Univ., $29.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-674-04968-0 This introduction to the birth of cuneiform writing in the Babylonian empire is an ...

Artists Equity, the artist-led indie studio founded by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Gerry Cardinale, has announced a new Writers’ Room program that will inform its development of original screenplays.

Feedback is crucial. That’s obvious: It improves performance, develops talent, aligns expectations, solves problems, guides promotion and pay, and boosts the bottom line. Douglas Stone are cofounders ...