Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's ...

Metaphor. Foreshadowing. Boy wizards. Most of us know the common elements of fiction. But there’s an endless supply of ...

In “Goliath’s Curse,” Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires.

No one wields a well-turned insult like a professional writer. As there’s nothing more fun than watching purveyors of high ...

The 56th Dongin Literary Award, a celebration of Korean literature shared with readers, selects its annual winner after ...

Another example of the misuse of literary terms was this line I was given by ChatGPT: “The Virgin Mary giving water to a dog in her shoe is a metaphor for mercy.” But it’s not a metaphor for mercy, it ...

Orwell: 2+2=5 look at writer who gave us a modern dystopian classic—and examines how authoritarianism works that feels way too familiar.

Allegory is another of the advanced English words that smart people use to show how educated they are. It's most commonly ...

Journey to the Edge of Life, a striking composite of memoir, biography, and criticism, dwells on the connection between art ...

Like so many young women in journalism, I am a Joan Didion devotee. Likewise, I am a major fan of Eve Babitz. While I admit ...

Her marriage plot is about the complex ways immigration inflects intimacy and how the romantic is political. Sonia, who ...

Harris’s memoir is weird because it’s stuck between the two. She does just enough to kind of annoy some people and some potential future allies but not enough to really feel like she’s telling us ...