The Power of Aesthetic Pleasure: Great literature pleases greatly. It delights us by its message, structure, and display. It is a joy to spend time with. We are bewitched by its rhyme and its cadence.

I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, ...

Culture / A new play about Roald Dahl shows the now-controversial children’s writer in his flawed, complicated reality. Katha ...

This has been yet another lesson in the enduring relevance of great literature. To borrow another line from Milton, on “to fresh woods, and pastures new.” On the Homeric epithet.

Feel as if Lost is sometimes made up as its going along without a lot of forethought? JJ Abrams would like to confirm your suspicions… And then compare it to classic literature because of that.

Great literature speaks to us of eternity. It can make us yearn for God and deepen our vision for our current reality. It can open our ears to cultural resonances across history and cultivate in ...

MANY SPORTS can make plausible claims to be the world’s best pastime. But when it comes to spawning great literature, baseball stands alone. American libraries dedicate shelves upon shelves to ...

Great literature and great mathematics satisfy the same deep yearning in us: for beauty, for truth, for understanding. As the pioneering Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya wrote: ...

Present Troubles Will Inspire Great Literature in Future: David Davidar. NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Creativity is being stifled and it takes courage to write about what’s going on but “the troubles ...