A NARRATIVE is a story. A novel is a narrative; so are many jokes. Whenever someone says, “Let me tell you what happened to me today...,” that person is beginning a narrative. It is no exaggeration to ...

The Cypriot dialect has travelled a long way from the margins. Once confined to casual conversations and jokes among friends, ...

This December, BBC Radio 4 and 4Extra will mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth with a season of programming celebrating the life, legacy, and literary brilliance of one of Britain’s most ...

Generative AI sheds new light on the underlying engines of metaphor, mood and reinvention in six decades of songs ...

Some cannabis proponents baptize modern drug culture in ancient authority. This isn’t the first effort to combine ...

It’s important to keep the well of creativity full, even when you’re not working on writing anything in particular.

This is Novel November month, a time when novice writers are encouraged to create their first draft, or 50,000 words, in 30 ...

The author of “The Eleventh Hour” looks back on a few works—by Mikhail Bulgakov, Franz Kafka, Voltaire, and E. M.

Andrew Miller’s novel “The Land in Winter,” a finalist for the Booker Prize, observes a world on the brink of cultural change ...

In her book, ‘The Rest Is Silence,’ Joanna Stalnaker offers an intimate portrait of Enlightenment philosophers as they faced ...

High school teachers can use texts from the canon to promote the skills their schools or states have identified as essential for graduates.

Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott ...