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Divorce—though originally sanctioned more than 1,400 years ago by Islamic law—is still widely viewed in Muslim societies as a subversive act that breaks up the family....

Our new series of poetry excerpts continues with a poem by Paige Ackerson-Kiely from her new book, Dolefully, a Rampart Stands. A great second-person poem is...

A lot of writing advice encourages you to market to your audience by defining your ideal reader. It says to think of your reader as one...

Download A View of Society and Manners in Italy, Volume I (of 2) by John W. Moore free now. in the link to download below you...

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There are things so widely known and accepted that it seems like a waste of time to reiterate them. The Earth is round. The sky is...

Stroll through the fiction section of a bookstore or library, and you’ll notice the phrase on countless spines: “A Novel.” Is this really necessary information when...

Although some mainstream publishers still publish story collections comprised largely of stand-alone stories (George Saunders’s Tenth of December leaps immediately to mind), many contemporary collections published...

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