Literature is fragile. It serves no obvious purpose. But it is also as close to immortal as any cultural endeavor has ever ...

Getting close to one of the big icons of Western civilization – the Acropolis, the Palace of Versailles, the Colosseum – can ...

In 1930 the detective novelist was commissioned to set a treasure hunt on the island enticing tourists to visit ...

Scholars at Pitt, CMU and Carlow University share their perspectives on the state of academic freedom federal pressures mount for U.S. campuses.

He’s the only university president in the country who openly, repeatedly rejects Trump’s claims that the administration’s ...

Despite advances, Arielle Kauvar, MD, calls for more research on laser and energy-based devices for patients with skin of color.

Why don’t these people, instead of writing prose to be judged poetically, write poetry in the first place?” I think the reason is that they consider prose to be by far the richer instrument for their ...

Set in the period after a breakup, the novel contains moments of sharp analysis that appear, at times, to endorse this ...

The Miles Franklin winner’s fifth novel, about an unhappy teen at boarding school, is imbued with a love of ancient myths.

Every life has twists, turns, and unexpected plotlines. What if the way you tell your story could change how you live it?

In “Motherland,” the journalist Julia Ioffe charts the Russian campaign to emancipate women — and the country’s failure to ...

A new film argues that, in an era of rising authoritarianism, audiences have become too numb to the speculative force of ...