The Nobel Prize-winning writer and the journalist chronicle their affair through shared photography. We revisit their story ...

This is because they do not sit comfortably between the paranoid creatures that Roland Barthes might, if he were still alive, have considered a mythology of the present day and the perfectly ...

Mangaka Ai Yazawa is best known for Nana, one of the top-selling manga in existence. After debuting in 1999, the story of ...

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 ...

The consequences, for both our personal and collective lives, are much discussed: How can we safeguard our privacy against ...

In 2003 the Nobel laureate had a torrid romance with Marc Marie, a French acquaintance. In “The Use of Photography,” they ...

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 ...