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 letters@northwestern.edu.

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, ...

Ernest Hemingway famously said that writers should “write hard and clear about what hurts”. Although Hemingway may not have known it at the time, research has now shown that writing about “what hurts” ...

“When you have to write in complete sentences with narrative structure, it’s really hard to hide sloppy thinking,” the Amazon founder once explained. He’s not the only super-smart business thinker who ...