Amitav Ghosh believes that climate change requires rethinking the novel. His new work of fiction fails that standard.

We loved Holden Caulfield at 16, but how does the book hold up? Six California writers unpack the enduring power of ...

Book travel is having a moment—travelers are turning to books to shape where they go, fueling a rise in literary trips, reading retreats and ‘readaways’ that promise slower, more meaningful vacations.

#162's KW2 'Vygotskyan scaffolding reverse direction / de-automatization' was tracked, and an attempt was made to escape from the 6-consecutive cognitive science cluster. De-automatization was ...

Edited by Sofía Monzón (Utah State University) and Lucie Spezzatti (University of Geneva) Scholarship on affect, emotion, embodiment, and feeling has significantly reshaped debates across the ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery. While other ...

Irish Times Books Editor Martin Doyle has launched a collection of interviews he has carried out with writers over the last 35 years. The collection is a compendium of Doyle’s interviews from his time ...

Rhea Perlman as Mrs Wormwood in the film adaptation of Matilda (1996). Everett Collection Inc Isolated, broken and wedded to routine, 30-year-old Eleanor avoids mirrors, not due to the physical scars ...

The numbers don’t make for pretty reading. Between 2011 and 2021, the number of students studying English literature at university fell by a third, and the decline has continued. Across UK ...

Researchers have published the recipe for an artificial-intelligence model that reviews the scientific literature better than some major large language models (LLMs) are able to, and gets the ...

A coalition of seven charitable foundations have launched the Literary Arts Fund, a new grantmaking organization that will award at least $50 million to the nonprofit literary sector over the next ...