A high school teacher describes how she teaches her students that disciplinary literacy is more than ‘fancy’ vocabulary.

An evolution of fall’s modern prep trend, the spring 2026 runways swapped country codes for literary references, grounding the collections with intellectual flair. Pencil skirts replaced trousers, ...

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 ...

Onomatopoeia refers to words that imitate the sound they are describing. Onomatopoeia is a device that appeals to our sense of sound. It can help build a sense of immediacy, movement, atmosphere or ...

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 ...

Over the past century, there have been countless attempts to assemble a definitive list of essential literature. In recent decades, however, the very idea of a literary canon has become a source of ...

“Most interesting cultural things emanate from restaurants,” Jeremy King told Monocle when he showed us around his newest project in London – the revitalisation of the beloved Simpson’s in the Strand.

It’s a Friday night in Chinatown. In the Asian Center, storefronts are closed, their neon signs still buzzing in the rain. Upstairs, lively chatter echoes from the Bel Ami Gallery. Inside, under red ...

Author and English professor Elizabeth McCracken, published her newest book, “A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction,” on Tuesday, and will host her book launch this Thursday at the Harry Ransom Center ...

Re “The Dogged, Irrational Persistence of Literary Fiction,” by Gerald Howard (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, Oct. 20): Defending the continuing vitality of the literary novel, Mr. Howard points to ...

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 ...