Anxiety, in particular, is a dominant force, reflected in rising mental health struggles tied to identity, freedom and choice. Viewing anxiety as a philosophical and existential issue, rather than ...

A key area of study in cognitive literary theory is how literature stimulates imagination, encouraging readers to visualize scenes, events and characters. By engaging readers’ mental imagery, ...

Last year, Wendy Cope’s poem, "The Orange", went viral on TikTok. I’m not totally certain how a poem goes viral, but it did – ...

The hat-wearing photo of Bhagat Singh, born this week over a century ago, is how we remember him visually. Punjabi writer ...

Being a Marxist in America is an often bewildering fate, as the towering literary critic Fredric Jameson, who died last month ...

In its day, so ethereal, so unique was the DS that even philosophers wrote essays about it in hallowed terms. Roland Barthes described the DS as having “fallen from the sky inasmuch as it appears at ...

To see that Barthes is right about the fundamental importance of the description of the garment in words one need only imagine fashion magazines consisting of nothing but photographs. A general ‘look’ ...