In this Q&A, Brown University Associate Professor of Literary Arts Karan Mahajan discusses his forthcoming novel, teaching ...

How I learned to stop worrying and be thankful for chatbots.

Within a year of publishing her debut novella, Hardly Strangers, Robinson had secured an agent, sold a short story for film adaptation, and signed another book deal. Her journey underscores 831’s ...

In an exclusive essay, author Brian Platzer writes of Mr. Keating, the influential teacher who inspired his new novel 'The Optimists.' ...

If all the writing that claimed to ‘subvert’ our expectations actually did so, society would have long since learned to live without expectations. The word has become a staple of book reviews and ...

Jason K. Bussman, adjunct lecturer in English, had a pair of essays published in Otherwise Engaged: A Literary and Arts Journal’s Winter 2025 issue: “No, I’m Not Nate Bargatze” and “The R2D2 Toy ...

From the wall-sized window of my hotel room, I can see layers of the city stretching away in the morning light. Six floors below me, just across the road, are a few of the old handcarts that have ...

is assistant professor of Classics at Cornell University in Ithaca, US. She is working on a book titled Bad Readers and Ancient Rome. A 3rd-century Egyptian fragment of Sappho’s poetry from papyri ...

For many students, essays can feel like distant, formal tasks with little room for passion. But what if your favorite superhero saga or indie graphic novel became the centerpiece of your next ...

“Author as well as professor,” was how Winfried Georg (“Max”) Sebald styled himself in the note attached to an article he contributed to a 1990 issue of the experimental Austrian journal, Trans-Garde.

How about early Western civilization. Jason, our most famous Argonaut, retrieved the Golden Fleece, the wool from a winged ram. Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God. In the Middle East and in Europe, sheep ...