Two Ohio children authored a viral debut novel about a fart named “Farty,” amassing thousands of likes on Instagram. Footage ...

Reading, writes Edwina Preston, is a way of journeying on the wings of others without moving from the armchair (or bed). Here ...

Vālmīki’s epic poem “The Rāmāyaṇa” is a great work of literature and a treasure of Indian culture — but its political and ...

Welcome to the 2025 Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors collection. For four years, this contest has celebrated stories that invite us to imagine the future we want — futures in ...

(Or a mix of both.) But for those who like to indulge in books that are grounded in real-world figures and history, the historical fiction genre is here with a positively sweeping array of ...

The Narrative Brain: The Stories Our Neurons Tell by Fritz Breithaupt. Yale University Press, 2025 ($35) Humans are storytelling ­animals. We narrate our lives as soon as we can speak and ...

If you don’t want to sound academic, don’t subtitle an essay ‘On the Dialectics of Eschatology in Stifter and Handke’ A sense of Heimat, or homeland, is also key — and indisputably ...

“He is awesome and we are all so happy he is here! For the kids safety and privacy we won’t be posting any pictures- but he’s a really cute. We are feeling so blessed and grateful.

how will it affect the education of actual kids, and what level of control do educators, administrators and state regulators have over the kind of content these things pump out? And above all ...

There are a lot of intriguing titles on the way this year in the fantasy and science fiction space. Whether you're looking for a wildly unique tale or a return to a beloved fictional universe ...

Private schools are the exclusive preserve of rich kids born to rich parents ... This is probably where the progressive educational narrative starts to unravel like the storyline of an over ...

In this month’s sci-fi picks, what’s worse? Coming face-to-face with the apocalypse or with our older selves? By Elisabeth Vincentelli Rent or buy it on most major platforms. Ben Goodger’s ...