Ambrose Bierce's 1890 short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is one of the most famous in all of American literature ...

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In the nineteen-thirties and forties, young book critics on the make used to crowd outside the office of Malcolm Cowley, the literary editor of The New Republic, in the hopes of his attention.

Nowadays some would call Cowley a gatekeeper, except that the term has acquired an invidious ring; Cowley’s power and influence lay in opening, not shutting, the door to a new generation. He came of ...

Great literature feels like recognition. It's that jolt when a character from 1925 describes exactly how you felt last Tuesday. It's the way a single sentence can make you laugh and break your heart ...

Lin Di Iorio and the cover of “The Best American Short Stories 2025,” which features her fiction. When Professor Lyn Di Iorio (GC/City College, English) changed the fate of a fictitious character a ...

American Airlines has rolled out a new, AI-powered technology at Sky Harbor. The technology holds planes for a short period of time in order to allow travelers with tight connection times to make ...

University of Virginia provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. As university leaders work to make deals with the Trump administration, many college presidents are at an ethical crossroads ...

WORCESTER — Shrewsbury couldn’t have asked for a better start in its opening game of the American Legion Northeast Regional Tournament. Post 397 scored three runs with two outs in the top of the first ...

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As the airlines crossed the bridge between the 1950s and 1960s decades, and the first long-range jets took form as the Boeing 707, the Douglas DC-8, and the Vickers VC10, the consensus was that the ...