Prose A. n. 1. a. Language in the form in which it is typically written (or spoken), usually characterized as having no deliberate metrical structure. Poetry a. Composition in verse [...]

Memory lets us remember what we have read, even this sentence for example. It also helps us with the act of reading, and all of the places the mind seems [...]

As I wandered into the GSU on Tuesday I was overcome by magnetic poetry. A large board was full of eccentric phrases that BU’s best passerby poets had put up. [...]

Koushan Takami’s Battle Royale series tests the limits of human compassion and selfishness. Japan as a national socialist state isolates fifty classes of junior high third years and send them [...]

Andrea Abi-Karam discusses why it’s so sexy when vampires are out for late-night snack.

The modern (or post-post-modern or contemporary or whatever you want to call it) novel seems to live in the fourth dimension: time. Ever since Faulkner, authors cannot keep their chronology [...]