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Write the name of a place (house, spot in nature, work, restaurant, etc.) at the top of your paper, and then do a stream-of-consciousness writing about that place and see what bubbles up. Pick a ...

Growing evidence reveals that creativity is one of the best-kept secrets for boosting your health. From live theatre to a ...

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

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The essay form is a response to minds, art, communities and culture, understood through a writer’s body, intellect and being.

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In the late 1990s, primary school teacher Antonio La Cava grew alarmed that students in his home region of Basilicata, in ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

Hollowed out. That’s how I frequently described West Virginia University during the nine years I worked there before leaving this summer. There was a library, but it bought fewer and fewer books. The ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...