Writers
Studies With Shorter Titles Are Cited More Often
Pithier titles may lead to greater impact factors.
Retracing the Footsteps of China's Patron Saint of Tourism
Travelers are discovering the Ming dynasty's own Indiana Jones, an adventurer who dedicated his life to exploring his country's Shangri-Las
Why Can’t Romance Novels Get Any Love?
The genre is long overdue to be the focus of serious study from academics
The Radical Paradox of Martin Luther King’s Devotion to Nonviolence
Biographer Taylor Branch makes a timely argument about civil right leader’s true legacy
Computers Write Novels Faster Than You Do
Silicon chips don't suffer writer's block
A Lost John Steinbeck Short Story Was Rediscovered, Published
The short story deals with the racial politics of the mid-20th century
Authors Who Couldn’t Quit the Characters That Made Them Famous
Here is a list of famous writers, including J.K. Rowling, who couldn’t resist reconnecting with their creations.
This Headline Is Trying to Manipulate You, And It's Working
Bad headlines stick with you, even if you read the story
Peering into the Secret Diaries of American Artists
A new Archives of American Art exhibition looks at how artists documented their lives before social media
Long Before Emojis, the Picassos of Persian Calligraphy Brought Emotion to Writing
The world's first exhibition devoted to <em>nasta’liq</em>, a Persian calligraphy, is now on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
The Cannibal Club: Racism and Rabble-Rousing in Victorian England
These 19th-century gentlemen of good standing let their inner boors loose in secret London backrooms
See Samuel Beckett’s Doodles of James Joyce And Charlie Chaplin
The six-notebook handwritten manuscript has been in private hands since the 1960s
Spain Begins to Search for Cervantes’ Bones
Experts use ground-penetrating radar to search for the author’s bones
Lewis Carroll Hated Fame So Much He Almost Wished He'd Never Written His Books
At least, that's what he said in a letter, now in the University of Southern California library
How Gabriel Garcia Marquez Became a Writer
Marquez attributed his writing to drawing as a child…and Franz Kafka
Hustle through America's Huckster History with a Smithsonian Curator as Your Guide
A blow by blow of the flimflams and tales of hustlers throughout history, art and literature
Why is Albert Camus Still a Stranger in His Native Algeria?
On the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famed novelist, our reporter searches the north African nation for signs of his legacy
Should the Constitution Be Scrapped?
In a new book, Louis Michael Seidman claims that arguing about the constitutionality of laws and reforms is the cause of our harsh political discourse
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