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Storytelling
Discover how the threads of myth, legend, and artistry have been woven together by storytellers to craft history.
The toilet “is a portal to a mysterious otherworld.”
Want to write a time-travel story? Do so at your own risk.
Defamiliarization is a common tool in the arts. Here we learn how seeing things from a different angle can lead to billion-dollar success.
Pure cinema is about removing redundancy so that even the smallest detail serves a purpose in relation to the bigger picture.
According to bushido, your life is of secondary importance to key virtues, like honor, loyalty, and justice.
Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.
These initially sympathetic characters take readers down a dark path.
Great writing can unveil the criminal psyche better than any other artistic medium.
Probability, lacking solid theoretical foundations and burdened with paradoxes, was jokingly called the “theory of misfortune.”
You become the main protagonist in these novels.
The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity's place in the world. Citizen science can help.
John Templeton Foundation
Take a closer look before judging a book by its title.
The key to its success lies not in its understanding of technology, but in its understanding of human nature.
Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature's most unreliable narrators.
Soviet censorship was thorough yet fallible.
But make sure you bring the fossegrim the proper offering—or else.
You can learn a lot about life through literature's most unrespectable and heinous characters.
Billy was a local celebrity in the early 1900s. And he might have been a murderer.
Not every classic enjoyed rave reviews from the start.
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
If the evolution of the Universe is a movie, what happens when we rewind it all the way backward?
What is Captain America doing in ancient Mesopotamia?
Everyone loves a good underdog story, but the lessons we derive from them depend on how they’re told.
Art criticism is inherently subjective. Still, many critics have tried to make a case for why some of the world’s most celebrated books are in fact terribly written.
Video games matter. Their continued technological and artistic development is reshaping the way we satisfy our ancient need to tell stories.