*Originally published on March 7, 2023. We're immersed in stories from our earliest childhood. Narratives are how we come to know and understand the world and our place in it. Stories are absolutely ...

Rachel Giese is the author of Boys: What It Means to Become a Man, which will be published next month. Everybody loves Love, Simon, the first major-studio, wide-release movie to put the story of a gay ...

The literary landscape of the 21st century seems more and more divided when it comes to one particular aspect: plot. Some books have it; others don’t. The have-nots have gotten a lot of critical ...

Writers and scholars have long debated what makes for a great story, but Samsun Knight wanted to see whether there was a way to empirically determine which stories will be snore fests and which will ...