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There are plenty of reasons to write fiction: to inform, to thrill, to move, to challenge, to inspire. All of those come into play in Amor Towles' work, but it seems to me that his main impulse is a very valuable one: to delight. Towles dazzled millions with his mega-selling "A Gentleman in Mosco

The nose is a time machine, Dr. Philip Kronk, a clinical psychologist, wrote recently in a column for the Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel. And it’s true.

“My ego says: ‘You’re better than this,’” says the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic. “And my id says: ‘Not today. Deal with it.’”

Ending tenure for all new hires would in effect mean no new instructors worthy of being...

Melvyn Dubofsky suggests many histories of the IWW are clouded by myth, including the figures most deserving of our respect and attention.

Nate Hawthorne writes about the issue of parenting in the Sojourner Truth Organization and his own experience in current groups.

January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all! On January 1, 2021, copyrighted works from 1925 will enter the US public domain,1 where they will be free for all to use and build upon. These works include books such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, and Franz Kafka’s The Trial (in the original German), silent films featuring Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, and music ranging from the jazz...