Fittingly for uncertain times, this fall authors emphasize the value of returning to old literary favorites. The season won’t be strictly nostalgic, however, and will see its fair share of debuts and ...

'One might, at an early age, wish to be a poet or a dramatist or a novelist or even possibly a critic," Joseph Epstein writes in "A Literary Education," his 13th collection of essays. "One somehow ...

This fall’s literary nonfiction disproves, or at least complicates, the notion that the writer’s life is a lonely one. Collections of correspondence capture authors in conversation with family members ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. All great writers have a life and an afterlife. The afterlife begins with the reassessment of the oeuvre and ...

I count myself lucky. Weird, I know, in this day and age when all around us the natural and political world is going to hell in a handbasket. But that, in fact, may be part of it. Back when I started ...

An essay is a piece of non-fiction writing with a clear structure: an introduction, paragraphs with evidence and a conclusion. Writing an essay is an important skill in English and allows you to show ...

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