What if literature was an invention for making us happier and healthier? wenjin chen/Getty Images Shortly after 335 B.C., within a newly built library tucked just east of Athens’ limestone city ...

But the debate underscores how lines blur when considering literary theft and acceptable ... in copyright law where the borrowing of plot elements is so extensive and blatant that plagiarism ...

But Smith and company produced a work that, like poetry itself, risks risibility to produce something dazzling — a literary superheroine’s origin story that’s heady, funny and full-feeling ...

Researchers at The New School in New York City have found evidence that literary fiction improves a reader’s capacity to understand what others are thinking and feeling. Emanuele Castano ...