The surrealist Exquisite Corpse game can help high schoolers playfully explore how structure and character impact stories.

The Purdue Literary Awards ceremony honored writers across multiple categories and featured a reading from the U.S. Poet ...

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Literary fiction made trauma its default engine. Every protagonist carries a wound. Every backstory hides a crisis. But ...

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From the wall-sized window of my hotel room, I can see layers of the city stretching away in the morning light. Six floors below me, just across the road, are a few of the old handcarts that have ...

is assistant professor of Classics at Cornell University in Ithaca, US. She is working on a book titled Bad Readers and Ancient Rome. A 3rd-century Egyptian fragment of Sappho’s poetry from papyri ...

For many students, essays can feel like distant, formal tasks with little room for passion. But what if your favorite superhero saga or indie graphic novel became the centerpiece of your next ...

What is a character sketch? It is a short description of a person, a social type, which focuses on their habitual preferences and behaviours. Imagine describing a type of person: an incel, an ...

“Author as well as professor,” was how Winfried Georg (“Max”) Sebald styled himself in the note attached to an article he contributed to a 1990 issue of the experimental Austrian journal, Trans-Garde.

Matt Pegas neatly arranges stacks of books atop the red tablecloth at the reception table in the front yard of the house party. Surrounding the books is a tableau of candles, rose petals, a tarot deck ...