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The noir genre in literature and film explores themes like antiheroes, moral ambiguity, corruption, and a refusal of happy endings.

Cary Grant turned 59 during the filming of Charade in 1963, and Audrey Hepburn was 33. Grant was uneasy about the gap, enough that the script was reworked so Hepburn’s character pursues him and ...

The traditional image of a researcher huddled over dusty volumes in a dimly lit basement archive is not the same today. The best collections of human knowledge are accessible with just a few clicks. T...

These 8 apps that make it easier to discover African books, from contemporary novels and classics to audiobooks and children’s stories.

Just as importantly, does the Brave New World film do justice to the Captain America comics that inspired it?

Following a clear, tested, tried-and-true formula makes the writing process less daunting. Without further ado, the beat sheet.

Do we forever operate on the defensive, fingers perpetually pointed towards the dark deeds of neo-colonial contemporaries and their colonial forebears?

Like every major movement in art history, gore art is an emotional language designed to process humanity’s most overwhelming experiences.

Not every branch deserves the same defence. This conflict explains much of the appeal of forbidden love romance books.

We Should All Be Feminists is perhaps her most direct attempt to turn those questions into a conversation.

Horror romance is one of fiction’s oldest and most enduring combinations, where tenderness and terror orbit each other.

ISTJ characters are necessary breathers because they often represent duty in its most intentional form. But is that all there is to them?

Following a clear, tested, tried-and-true formula makes the writing process less daunting. Without further ado, the beat sheet.

A character can achieve everything they set out to do and still leave readers confused. This is where the A B story becomes valuable

This guide explores how to apply the rule of three in worldbuilding and provides a practical guideline for its corrrect us

Thinking about changing careers but want to make the most of your writing skills? Discover 15 writing-adjacent careers to explore.

One of the hardest lessons in Khaled Hosseini’s stories is that the consequences of our choices don’t end when we move on. And when we act selfishly, the consequences don’t follow us in eq...

The following comma rules cover common situations, explain frequent mistakes and show how commas can serve a writer’s purpose.

The round vs flat character debate becomes more interesting when “flatness” stops being treated as a synonym for poor writing.

An author can publish independently. This has made it difficult to define the relationship between the internet and reading.

Is literary fiction actually “better” than genre fiction, or has everyone simply agreed to act like it is?

Both Game of Thrones  and The Wheel of Time completely reshaped the fantasy genre, but they did it in almost opposite ways.

Few literary conversations embody these contrasts more fully than the enduring debate surrounding prose vs poetry.

Classic horror novels acted as mirrors of their time, but not always fairly, reflecting fear and distortion.