Reading and Writing

"I asked a room full of M.A. English students about the reading they were doing outside the curriculum. At least a third did not do any...

"By challenging — through reading — our imagination to engage and embrace ever changing, often alien, characters, circumstances, and di...

"Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed description, an evocative metaphor or an emotional exchang...

"Ever since I was a small child, I never felt anything but pure love for reading books of all shapes and sizes. It was not until later ...

"In his forthcoming book [...] the American author Robert Levine has an excellent chapter on publishing in which he interrogates the fo...

"The fact is that authors seldom retire. Many don’t want to; others couldn’t afford to. So they keep going till death drags them from t...

Writing in pursuit of truth lets you see through darkness. "Once you have entered that dungeon, and raised your lamp, and seen the inju...