Still Fighting It

Check out new fiction from You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine author Alexandra Kleeman.

The Millions is delighted to welcome new staff writer Marie Myung-Ok Lee, whose first piece for the site publishes today. Marie is the author of  Somebody's Daughter and a novel about medicine forthcoming from Simon and Schuster. You may have seen Marie's excellent writing in The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many other venues. She teaches fiction at Columbia.

"I discovered that stealing required a loose, casual energy," writes Miranda July. "A sort of oneness with the environment, like surfing or horse-whispering."

“Now the lattice that connects us is digitally immediate we travel all the more, but we’ve lost this thrill of adventure. It’s oddly touching to read a novel where journeys are so inherently exciting, and it makes the book both consummately funny and poignantly elegiac.” On the novel Changing Places by David Lodge.

“Poetry is not connected to my professional work - it is my personal world," says India’s newly-appointed ambassador to Argentina, Amarendra Khatua. Indeed, Khatua’s but the latest high-profile figure in Indian government to turn to creative writing to seek “emotional refuge” and a means of “battl[ing] workplace blues and the stress of decision making.”