THE short story is not the poor country cousin of the novel. Many excellent short story writers have been denigrated for not ...

Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or ...

I’ve long harbored the suspicion that something similar is happening with infrastructure development in Southeast Asia, ...

Short anti-work pamphlet from ~1980. Short anti-work pamphlet from ~1980.

Meanwhile, OPM is placing less emphasis on essays federal job candidates filled out detailing how they would advance the administration's policy goals.

Short books that can ask immense questions about race, grief, identity, and love with powerful clarity and in compact ...

Hannah Pittard wrote a memoir about the breakup. When she learned that her ex planned a novel about it, she took it back up, ...

This year, Guru Purnima is being commemorated on July 10. Here are some wishes, quotes, captions, and images to share with ...

Minister of Education Reda Hegazy announced on Sunday that short essay questions will be reinstated in the Thanaweya Amma exams, as part of the state's recent efforts to promote learning through ...

George Palmer Putnam, co-founder of the Jazz Age nightclub, introduced the world to Rudy Vallée and fell hard for Amelia ...

Rousseau was a repeat entrant in the prestigious Dijon Prize contests and actually won the coveted award a second time in 1754 for his “Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men.” In ...

I’ve been reading the short essays in Joaud’s book (each just one or two pages long) and writing, by hand, for 10 to 15 minutes in response to the prompt provided by the essay’s author.