WRITING

Series like R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps introduced '90s kids to horror at a young age.

“Once upon a midnight dreary” begins “The Raven,” setting the mood for one of the most recognizable poems written in English.

‘Severance’ author Ling Ma is a 2024 MacArthur Fellow; here are some other famous authors who were awarded the grants.

As Stephen King once said, novellas are “too long to be short and too short to be really long.”

Because sometimes, periods, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks, brackets, parentheses, braces, and ellipses won't do.

Anna Sewell’s 19th-century novel about a horse named Black Beauty put the spotlight on animal welfare.

Celebrate the many contributions to literature that LGBTQ+ authors have made with these great reads by Danez Smith, Dorothy Allison, Alexander Chee, Alice Walker, and more.

The poem “The Rainbow Bridge” has long comforted animal lovers who are mourning a pet. But for decades, its author remained a mystery.

“Little Women” is one of the world's most beloved novels—but Louisa May Alcott only wrote it to help her father get a publishing contract.

The abbreviations are widely understood as “morning” and “afternoon,” but what do the Latin translations actually mean?

Take a look back at the surprising origins of “Carrie,” Stephen King’s first book—and more importantly, discover how his wife Tabitha King played a pivotal role in its creation.

A fascinating new discovery has emerged about a pamphlet found in the rafters of William Shakespeare’s childhood home.