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"I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."
The top priority was to maintain the agenda.
Classic literature reveals how resilience can be both a source of strength in troubled times — and a dangerous ideal.
A preview of the latest novel by the New York Times bestselling author.
Reading classic books can teach you as much about the present as the past.
In this excerpt from "America's Most Gothic," Leanna Hieber and Andrea Janes examine the history and folklore of Maine's vanished schooner.
What happens when scientists "write what they know"? Some amazing science fiction stories.
"Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language."
That Nietzsche quote might not mean what you think it does.
Will "Sausage Party" survive the test of time?
Does Platonic love actually exist?
With the right prompts, large language models can produce quality writing — and make us question the limits of human creativity.
Have you ever noticed how many things you interact with but can’t name? So did we.
Like many of us, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius hated waking up early, but his stoic philosophy always helped him get out of bed.
How to say, "In many ways, Proust is similar to Joyce" and get away with it.
Today, the F-word is enjoying a renaissance the likes of which it hasn’t seen since, well, the Renaissance.
He is only out-sold by William Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.
The world’s “most produced living playwright” wins out over other contestants, including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood.
Six authors, six monumental legacies, and a unique thread connecting them: a solitary novel that shines brightly.
Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
Probability, lacking solid theoretical foundations and burdened with paradoxes, was jokingly called the “theory of misfortune.”
When done right, dark humor can help us face inconvenient truths and question stifling social conventions.
You become the main protagonist in these novels.
The Foo Fighters are at the dead center of the map, so all the other bands are happier, sadder, angrier, or hornier.
A new book by historian and author Paul Strathern argues that the Northern European Renaissance has long been overlooked.
From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s "Dune," science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.
Not every classic enjoyed rave reviews from the start.
Try writing a novel without using the letter "e."
Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?