Poetry and prose are prominent features in this course about how climate change is affecting the world.
While most board games are designed for one person to win, climate change games are about saving the world.
African immigrant writers possess particularly acute insights into the way race and racism affect daily life in the US.
This course beckons students to examine how alcoholic beverages are portrayed in books by American authors.
For years, the biggest video game publishers have operated under the assumption that compelling stories and captivating characters don’t offer a good return on investment.
Kevin McCarthy, the only speaker of the House to be ousted, has quit Congress. The ancient Greeks and Romans, as well as Shakespeare, understood the price of ambition like McCarthy’s: humiliation.
Mothers are smudged out and poorly cloaked beneath drapes in these 19th century portraits. But these photos are not so much relics of shoddy photography than an ode to childhood.
The twists and turns of teenage years take on new meaning in these 5 books about LGBTQ+ youth.
In the ugly spectacle of American politics, it’s hard to keep humanity in sight. But literature, says a poet and scholar of the classics, can remind us of what we know about growing old.
The author of ‘A Black Philadelphia Reader,’ a new anthology of writing by Philadelphia authors past and present, revisits four riveting works by local women.
Born enslaved, John Andrew Jackson spent his life fighting for freedom as a fugitive, abolitionist, lecturer and writer. Along the way, he met an aspiring writer.
Newhart showed how standup comedy could also be an art form, particularly with his ‘Abe Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue’ bit.
Some of the most essential but least protected workers in a $200 billion industry want to ensure that AI won’t do away with their jobs.
You can uncover the depths and hidden details of your own family’s unspoken narratives by thinking like an archival researcher writing an ‘investigative memoir.’
Reduced to its essence, the process of natural selection would look a lot like play.
Despite feeling some schadenfreude at watching politicians squirm over being derided as such, a scholar of speculative fiction wants to keep America weird.
American writer Ralph Ellison provided a sharp analysis of the subversive power of Black laughter in 1930s America.
Donald Trump’s words about Kamala Harris – she’s a ‘mentally disabled person’ – were widely criticized as coarse and ugly. They are also often found among disparaging descriptions used by others.
The themes in the hit television series echo the social and political issues that the state has grappled with for decades.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has a practical mission – protecting seeds as a backup for seed banks around the world – but inspires strong cultural, political and artistic reactions.
France's Marine Le Pen rejects embezzlement claims as her presidential bid hangs in balance
China battery giant CATL would build US plant if Trump allows it
Chinese giant CATL pushes beyond batteries into power grids, EV platforms
Flights cancelled to and from Indonesia's Bali due to volcanic ash
India's middle class tightens its belt, squeezed by food inflation
John Krasinski named People magazine's 'sexiest man alive'
Spoelstra laments 'horrendous mistake' after calling timeout Heat didn't have in OT loss to Pistons