The passing of celebrated Kenyan writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o on 28 May 2025 marks the end of a remarkable period in African literary history - the fabulous decades in the second half of the ...

Dutch writer Yael van der Wouden won the Women's Prize for Fiction on Thursday for her debut novel "The Safekeep," a story of repressed emotion and historical memory in the Netherlands after World War ...

In British Columbia, First Nations youth who speak their ancestral language are less likely to die by suicide. In Australia's ...

Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity. Tech companies are now tapping into an older repository of knowledge: the library stacks.

Arturo Hernandez, Professor of Psychology at the University of Houston and editor for Perspectives on Psychological Science, joins Under the Cortex to reflect on the dynamic relationship between ...

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case ...

Spirited (and gossipy) letters and manuscripts at the Morgan Library and Museum puncture myths about the writer’s rise to ...

Two books related to Final Fantasy XVI — a lore book and an art book — will have their English language debut in 2026.

The cognitive flexibility that comes from being multilingual can give students a boost in math—if teachers know how to build ...

Julian Barnes is the author of 13 novels, including the 2011 Booker Prize-winning “The Sense of an Ending.” In 2017 he was ...