Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

The true pleasure of literature can be found in demanding works such as Your Name Here, by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff.

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

Essays by longtime editor of The Times Record and founder of the Maine Times were compiled into the book 'In Maine: Essays on ...

Retried EKU professor Jacqueline Jane Hamilton launched a non-profit call Why We Write, and helped compile the poems for 'A ...

Pointe-Claire Plaza was a strip mall only a five-minute drive from our house. It had shops, a grocery store, and at the very ...

We asked novelists to anthropologists, scientists, criminologists and experts in politics, publishing & philosophy for their favourite books.

While a book cannot stop evil forces, it can educate us, warn us, and prepare us for what’s coming. The books listed here not ...

The end of the year means holiday celebrations, summer breaks … and for us, one important thing: Best books lists.

Amitava Kumar discusses how Indian trains reveal the invisible lives of migrant workers and the social realities of the ...

How Oversharing Became a Product in a Digital World. Darren McGarvey (Ebury) and Hounded: Women, Harms and the Gender Wars. Jenny Lindsay (John Wiley and Sons ...

When Tatiana Schlossberg submitted an essay to The New Yorker, it had not been assigned or even expected. It was accepted ...