In a new series, our columnist offers advice on using what you know about teaching to improve your public writing.

A Selection in Translation is collection of Bangla literary essays starting from Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay (1827–1894) to the ...

A recent study has found a 50 per cent decline in the use of semicolons over the last two decades. The decline accelerates a longterm trend: In 1781, British literature featured a semicolon roughly ...

Reading Joan Didion’s posthumously published new book feels like eavesdropping on private marital conversations. It’s ...

This year’s Stella Prize shortlist is a testament to the importance of truthfulness, painstaking research and the urgency of confronting shame.

The Washington Post’s longtime book critic Michael Dirda took a break from reading, then delved into some favorites and new ...

In a rare example of blurb accuracy ... describes it as “essay and ethnography,” and the back cover as “creative nonfiction” and “medical anthropology.” All would seem correct.

Some essays have assurance shining through every immaculate sentence; others have their indecision in the open – two of the examples below ... master of literary non-fiction.

Students are already using A.I. to learn and write. The education policy expert Rebecca Winthrop explores the big questions ...

Raoul Peck is one of our most valuable documentary filmmakers. Instead of just presenting us with information, he shows us ...