Eight of Literature’s Most Powerful Inventions—and the Neuroscience Behind How They Work These reoccuring story elements have proven effects on our imagination, our emotions and other parts of ...

Those plot points were all included in outlines for “The Woman in the Window” that Mr. Mallory sent to Jennifer Joel, a literary agent at ICM, in the fall of 2015, before Ms Denzil began ...

John Guillory’s “Cultural Capital,” published amid the 1990s canon wars, became a classic. In a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes on his field’s deep funk.