literature

_Zenodo_. 2026This paper presents the formal mathematical and neurobiological foundations of the Bulut Doctrine, establishing a deterministic and falsifiable framework for quantitative narratology and biophysical aesthetics. Traditional literary criticism remains predominantly interpretive, relying on subjective, post-hoc qualitative evaluations. In contrast, the Bulut Doctrine reconstructs narra…

Author Sarah Pierce explores dating apps, loneliness and human connection through a novel about a corpse-matching algorithm

Getting dressed in the morning, many of us will look in the mirror and ask ourselves what our outfit says about us. In this way, it is easy to treat clothing as something to be read: a way of communicating who we are, where we belong, and what we value. Yet this familiar way of thinking about fashion can obscure as much as it reveals. Fashioning argues that our preoccupation with what adornment m…

People are born old in their graves and get more robust over life, only to shrink into babies who are pushed into their mother’s womb. The ambitious Under Story conjures a disconcerting, “backwards” world, finds science fiction columnist Emily H. Wilson

Journalist Amanda McCracken shares how she turned a theme in her book about longing into a vulnerable story for Runner’s World. The post How a freelancer pitched a personal essay about running and romance to Runner’s World appeared first on Association of Health Care Journalists .

The children’s author Mac Barnett does not pull punches when it comes to his chosen profession: “If you don’t think children’s books are real books,” he writes, “on some level you don’t think children are real people.” The author of more than 70 books, Barnett has become a key evangelist for high-quality children’s literature, particularly […]

From China Miéville to Brandon Sanderson via a tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, there are some really huge names with new sci-fi novels out this month - as well as a new Doctor Who tale, says Alison Flood

_Arts of Management Journal_ 10 (3):52-62. 2026Although Islamic communication ethics has received growing scholarly attention, relatively little work has examined Qawlan Hasanan as a comprehensive normative framework grounded in the Quranic concept of human dignity (karamah) and applicable to both interpersonal and digital communication. This article addresses that gap by examining the Quranic co…

The journalist Jon Ronson finds metaphor and meaning in the story of one man’s baronial fantasia and others like him who are living unmoored from reality.

A new book by Zoologist and Surrealist Desmond Morris contains surprising insights.

The former media mogul spent nearly two decades making art largely out of public view. Now, with projects from New York to Rhodes, she’s thinking about what happens when you finally have an audience.

_Debates in Aesthetics_ 20 (2):91-107. 2026This paper examines Sherri Irvin’s concept of aesthetic exploration, which seeks to resist exclusionary beauty norms through perceptual openness and individual empowerment. Although Irvin’s framework broadens the scope of aesthetic appreciation, I contend that when aesthetic exploration is insufficiently integrated with shared evaluative frameworks, it r…

_Notes and Queries_:1-3. 2026In chapter XXXI of Volume V of Tristram Shandy (1759–67), Tristram’s father Walter Shandy ponderously summarizes the ideas of patriarchal authority contained in the preface to his Tristra-paedia, a system of education that he was compiling for his son.1 Walter at first declares his intention to pass by the ‘first thirty pages’ because they are ‘a little dry’. Yet he c…

A University of Miami specialist in the classics challenges the mythical representation of the Sirens in Homer's epic, casting the sea nymphs as a subversive threat to ancient Greek social order.