All you needed to know about the decline of Madison Avenue was there to see on Super Bowl Sunday last week. Most commercials made no attempt at selling, and they will not enter the cultural pantheon ...

What is “creative nonfiction,” exactly? Isn’t the term an oxymoron? Creative writers—playwrights, poets, novelists—are people who make stuff up. Which means that the basic definition of “nonfiction ...

I’ve long been attracted to books of instruction. I don’t mean self-help or craft manuals, but rather something more amorphous: prompts, ideas, inquiries, confessions. The “I Ching,” Brian Eno and ...