i. smile wrinkles | 笑纹 They curl outwards, stretching themselves to bask in the sun: soft grooves twined upon aged skin. They remind me...

​What is that? Above me, what is that? Inside me, what is that? What is that I see and touch, what is it I have known and found and...

Notable for her witty writing, Maureen Johnson is best known for her upper middle school books such as Suite Scarlett and Truly Devious....

​Caption: ​The Virgin Annunciate, Antonello da Messina, c. 1476. The Virgin is, here, come to the knowledge of her conception of Christ...

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1 Caption: Tietê bus terminal, São Paulo, Brazil, 1996, Sebastião Salgado ​ To me this photograph embodies the relation of language and...

​1 ​ Language, as the existence of poetry signifies, inherently and inexorably fails. Produced by an individual who is by definition...

Milton’s Paradise Lost is at once conventional and subversive of convention: The epic draws from the tradition of heroic poetry, the...

It is a great power of literature to reflect contemporary society and politics. Through literature, as through art, the writer records...

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The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, given to the French novelist Annie Ernaux, celebrates autobiography, writing that does not transport...

The purpose of art is as ambiguous as it is important to attempt to answer — art’s place in society and history, its interaction with the...

The youth's disillusionment with reading is, in most respects, a universal and relentless state of mind. We begin in a puddle of words...

Writer's block, however troubling it may be, shouldn't have to stunt your writing progress. There are plenty of other ways to get ideas...