An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia ...

In his Poetics. he states that the principal effect of good tragedy literature is the purging of emotions, especially pity and fear. He called this catharsis. Catharsis is a metaphor derived from ...

It is the stark contrast between the story's sour beginnings and its lavishly delectable ending that makes the following tale ...

When we read good literature, we should question what we read and why something is happening. We should seek to be stimulated by our reading to change and improve ourselves and everything. Is what we ...

F ear stalks the land, including the Upper West Side,” I wrote to a friend the other day. A week before the election, ...

Last spring David Grossman, one of Israel's preeminent novelists, wrote, “Neither side is capable of viewing the other's ...

Tony Jordan:'Comedy and tragedy, 'the twin pillars of Dickens ... This clip will be relevant for teaching English Literature at KS3 and KS4 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and National ...

Toni Morrison’s gorgeous novel, “Beloved,” handles tragedy with care and precision ... Though this has been cause for criticism of Morrison’s literary work in the past, it’s not only a testament to ...

I often think back to the multiple people who prevented this tragedy from being even worse ... a quiet kid with greasy hair ...

Shirel Golan, a survivor of the Oct. 7 terror attacks at the Nova music festival, took her own life after a battle with post-traumatic stress disorder. @shirel.golan ...

The nature of his death has attracted parasocial voyeurs treating the tragedy like an entertaining mystery. But again, as Payne described, this spectacle is just a part of the regular circus of ...

French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud on Monday won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for a novel set during Algeria's ...