While thinking about metaphor, I somehow ended up talking about the "concrete and the abstract." I'll try to organize the way ...

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Brandon Sanderson and Matt Dinniman took remarkably different roads to becoming two of the biggest names in fantasy.

A century after Virginia Woolf asked why sickness had failed to become one of literature’s great subjects, writers are still ...

RPS digs into the Poem Game jam organised by TIGSource founder and long-time game poet Jordan Magnuson.

This subjection is all the more disappointing because at primary level, the teaching of poetry begins sympathetically in the ...

Socialists need more than a critique of capitalism. We need a concrete account of how a socialist economy could work — and make ordinary people’s lives better.

Anytime my wife and I eat or drink out, I pay. When she says it’s time to go, I flag down the service staff, take the check, ...

You've heard it a hundred times. A soaring string melody plays under a car gliding down a coastal highway, or a triumphant ...

Beetles are everywhere,” points out Max Barclay, our Senior Curator of Coleoptera, in his new book Interesting Beetles. Somehow picking from the more than 400,000 described species and the 10 million ...