In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

January is traditionally a month for starting projects, trying new things, and working to break bad habits — particularly anything that gets in the way of self-improvement or productivity. Polygon ...

Satire and mystery swirl with arrogance, the creative process and unchecked ambition in Matthew Pearl’s amusing and realistic “The Award.” Pearl turns a delightfully poisoned pen toward writers and ...

On occasion, what a book club needs most is for one person to tell another person to shut up. That’s when a book club facilitator could help. “When a club wants a facilitator, it’s usually because of ...

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Russ Jarvis eyes Israel’s Sea of Galilee in 2016. Editor’s note: This piece first appeared in PrimeTime, the Daily Reporter’s quarterly magazine for active seniors. You can find the whole magazine ...

Worried about your end-of-term papers? You’re not alone. Writing can be a daunting task, especially when you don’t know where or how to begin. When you’re stuck, remember these three tips to ease the ...

College students face a common enemy. The blank page. The blinking cursor. Writing essays can feel like torture. Professors want polished academic writing. But who actually practices that in real life ...

Throughout my time playing the game, I’ve learned a lot. While the campaign can serve as a bit of a tutorial for the fundamentals of Battlefield 6, it also leaves a lot out. For starters, there are no ...

“A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are actually teaching ourselves how to ...

Myra Deshmukh worked at Amazon for over a decade and taught a business writing course to other employees. She shares seven tips for improving email communication, including being concise and avoiding ...

Writing is hard. Writing books is harder. So as a mere plebeian author interviewing Dan Brown for the first time, I needed to know: After you’ve sold 200 million books, does it get any easier? “It’s ...