Writers Studio hosted its annual Literary Festival on Saturday, Feb. 21st, to the largest group of attendees since the ...

In a career studded with literary awards, he was the author of dozens of books that grappled with his nation’s legacy of ...

With this week’s announcement of massive cuts at The Washington Post, the paper’s Book World supplement earned a dismal distinction: It may be the only newspaper book-review section to have been ...

The secret waterfall glistened and babbled while lizards lazily basked on the warm rocks, snatching juicy flies from the air with their quick tongues. Imagery is a technique that enlivens the reader's ...

Personification is when you give human characteristics to inanimate objects (e.g. a spoon or a shoe), abstract concepts (e.g. time or happiness) or natural phenomena (e.g. the weather or a tree). It ...

One of the most enjoyable aspects of travel is the time to read a good book, so it's not that surprising that vacations built entirely around books and authors are on the rise. Thanks to forces such ...

Between the Trump administration's cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and the gutting of the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, federal ...

This talk highlights a phenomenon observable in certain rabbinic texts from the early Islamic period that imitate the Mishnah. Unlike the Babylonian Talmud and the Iraqi Geonim—those great champions ...

Taylor Swift is known for her storytelling and poetic lyricism. Her lyrics reference novels by Daphne du Maurier, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, and more. Swift's newest single, "The Fate of ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...