Should we ignore Strunk and White's “The Elements of Style”?
A science-fiction radio play by the author Lydia Millet imagines a future in which humans have wiped out the world’s plants.
It’s a familiar scene: the writer sitting at the typewriter, unsure of how to begin — but what about knowing when to stop?
Hilary Mantel’s books “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies” have reshaped how we think of Henry VIII — and made a hero out of the blacksmith’s son, Thomas Cromwell.
Every semester, hundreds of thousands of college papers and essays are graded and then quickly relegated to the dustbin of history. Carleton University's Jim Davies explains how all of that student effort could be put to better use.
Pulitzer winner Annie Baker writes plays that are full of awkward silences. Is that why some people love them, while others walk out?
Mary Jo Bang has developed a reputation as a poet’s poet by facing the hardest truths about human beings. Maybe that’s why she had so much fun translating Dante’s “Inferno.”
Before he was our host, Kurt Andersen co-founded the pioneering humor magazine Spy. Here are his suggestions for finding the funny.
You might type notes faster than you write them, but according to research, longhand is better for remembering and synthesizing information.
Peter Carey’s latest novel, “Amnesia,” sees government surveillance and cyber terrorism from an Australian perspective.