The White Album” by Joan Didion “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” I have been praying at the altar of Joan Didion ...

I was used to a disembodied way of working: identify a philosophical problem, then study it. What could spending time with a ...

The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.

Nine young writers will address issues of student safety and security in Washington schools in this year's Seattle Times Student Voices column series.

But after his fall, beginning in his first days in the hospital, Kureishi started to write furiously. A flurry of ...

Dawes, who has written dozens of books of poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, looks to celebrate Jamaican writing, oral ...

In a landscape dominated by personal statements, recommendation letters, and standardized test scores, St. John’s College is taking a different approach. The private liberal arts college, known for ...

Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own.

I’m at the park with my daughter, who is jumping in and out of puddles, splashing, shrieking at me (Mum! Look what I can do!) ...

Books include collections of essays, interviews, translations and poetry. With its emphasis on developing writing and reading skills along with creative thinking, a Creative Writing degree prepares a ...

Teachers are responding to the fear of students cheating with AI by getting rid of take-home essays and emphasizing day-to-day discussions, student presentations and tests. This performance-based ...

The connecting theme of the book is that all the writers under ... If you don’t want to sound academic, don’t subtitle an essay ‘On the Dialectics of Eschatology in Stifter and Handke ...