It doesn’t open up the tapestry of human experience — it reads like it was written by a shut-in with Wi-Fi and a thesaurus.

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British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak tells the BBC her writing is guided by intuition rather than a rigid plan.

David Velleman started a magazine to put the heart back into philosophy. Philosophical writing used to consist of wide-ranging, creative essays that were grounded in technique, but still accessible to ...

“I’m writing a history of human feelings,” Alexievich says. “What people thought, understood and remembered during the event. What they believed in or mistrusted, what illusions, hopes and fears they ...

This is FRESH AIR. When it comes to rock music with literary flair, rock critic Ken Tucker thinks you can't do much better than the band called The Paranoid Style. They're a Washington, D.C.-based ...

Ranajit Guha’s late works on literature are not representative of his own earlier, seminal works in maturity, either in form, but also, more overtly, in content. Admired all over the world for his ...