I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as an undergraduate in Argentina. The lecturer asked a simple question: where does language come from? My instinctive answer was: books.

The 'Bird by Bird' author and Neal Allen discuss their new book 'Good Writing' and their late-in-life romance.

Salman Rushdie does not want to be seen as ‘free speech Barbie’: ‘Little frustrating’ - Author says he prefers conversations ...

Speaking with George Packer at the New Orleans Book Festival, the author was eager to return to the subject of fiction.

If the Supreme Court strikes down state bans on conversion therapy in Chiles v. Salazar, all Americans will be worse off, write Garrard Conley and Tim Schraeder Rodriguez.

Prognosticators and experts often accurately predict Oscar winners before they're announced, but sometimes they're wrong, ...

Molly McNett’s 'Child of These Tears' displays the difficulties of translation, the irreducibility of meaning, and the frustrating limitations of human nature and society.

In her love letter to the ’90s – the last analog decade – the Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist shares how she fell in love with the low-end and became an integral part of the noise-making generation ...

The hippies have become a punch line, but by fusing their political convictions to a broader cultural identity they found something that we seem to have lost, Jay Caspian Kang writes.

Sameerah Munshi also said her decision was in protest of a fellow committee member being fired after arguing that being ...

The 98th Academy Awards are underway. Comedian Conan O’Brien is back for a second year to host the ceremony, held at the ...