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Reading Art Spieglman’s Maus was a revelation. While I had read many novels and memoirs of the Holocaust, his book made the horrors even more tangible....

There’s nothing quite as dramatic as a courtroom scene, whether it’s in a book, onstage, or on-screen. Someone is literally on trial; their life (or at...

It’s a tale as old as time — or at least as old as Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve first printing of it in 1740 — and one fairy...

Recently, my partner and I and a few friends gathered with somewhat ridiculous ceremony for a meeting of our book club devoted to E.M. Forster’s queer...

While most of know filler words based on speeches and using “um” or “uh”, but writing can also have a ton of filler words. Filler words...