He likened himself to Alfred Dreyfus and Edmond Dantès, unjustly maligned heroes of French history and fiction. Trump went ...

My girlfriend reads six books at any given time. Given that I make my living as a writer, you might think it’s wonderful to ...

Exclamation marks, ellipses and ‘haha’ can’t fix our growing inability to communicate.

Y es—oh, dear, yes —the novel tells a story,” E. M. Forster wrote. “I wish that it was not so.” Julian Barnes has confessed ...

After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good on January 7 during an immigration ...

Rahul Dev Burman, or ‘Pancham Da’ or ‘Boss’, as he was fondly called, is often credited with changing the sound of Hindi film ...

A University of Warwick-led analysis of almost 5,000 student-authored reports suggests that student writing has become more polished and formal since the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022—but ...

Gary Shteyngart was just seven years old when his family emigrated from the Soviet Union and settled in Queens. He remembers the transition as one of “leaving black-and-white for pure Technicolor.” ...

What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, becoming fluent in this form of penmanship, once the hallmark of a good ...

Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics of reading more visible than ever with creative, and often intricate, annotations. Called marginalia, these markups can be elaborate, with ...

I’m waiting on a call back from someone at the Roaring Spring paper company in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania that probably isn’t coming. I get it; they’re busy. As the school year begins, the biggest ...

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