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The English writer left behind a mind-expanding collection of books.
There's a lot to love about the innovations of Scrivener 3 for the Mac.
Many were expecting extremism survivor and free speech advocate Salman Rushdie to take home the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Annie Ernaux beat him to it.
The Swedish Academy honored the writer for his uncompromising inquiry into the lasting consequences of Africa’s colonization.
Socrates lived during a time when people did not strive to separate fact from fiction. So how much of what we know about Socrates is true?
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The Siege of Leningrad lasted over two years and claimed nearly a million lives. It also inspired writers to record the bleak conditions in which they lived.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That old adage roughly sums up the idea of antifragility, a term coined by the statistician and writer Nassim Taleb. The term refers […]
The author of classics like "A Farewell to Arms" and "The Sun Also Rises" is known and loved for his simple yet effective writing style. Here’s how to imitate it.
The Russian writer’s scorn went beyond a difference in taste; Leo Tolstoy virulently hated everything Shakespeare had come to stand for.
"Tristram Shandy" trolled its way to fame.
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According to literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, Dostoevsky's talents were on par with those of William Shakespeare.
Who doesn't love a little existential fear every once in a while?
Many of his criticisms ring true today.
Late-night shows, developed during the "golden age" of TV, are no longer as relevant in the age of streaming services and Donald Trump.
When you're a genius, how do you make ends meet?
Like some cold poison creeping up our veins, there's a frisson in the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe.
Just as there are many types of believers, there's not only one type of atheist.
Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.
Created in the 1880s, "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan," which depicts a father murdering his son, divides Russians to this day.
"Even with my training, I still got insights from the book’s descriptions. That’s how good Carroll is at explaining physics."
A quote from a 1995 book by astronomer Carl Sagan describes a world many find disturbingly similar to ours.
Vladimir Putin adores Fyodor Dostoevsky. A close reading of the legendary author’s texts reveals the feeling might have been mutual.
The Universe isn't as "clumpy" as we think it should be.
Fear is one of the oldest and most powerful emotions known to man, so it should come as no surprise that horror stories are as old as storytelling itself.
Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series helped inspire the field of social physics, which uses math to understand crowd behavior.