The strangely short history of a publishing niche. Ad Policy The smallest book in the world is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1961. (Photo by Keystone / Getty Images) As an English professor, ...

City Desk has consistently returned thumbs-down verdicts on Washington Post Staff Writer DeNeen Brown and her literary devices. Any loyal Post reader knows the Brown MO—excessive second person ...

When a character onstage or onscreen quickly addresses the audience, it’s known as an aside. Both a dramatic device for actors and a literary device for writers, asides appear across mediums to give ...

As the name implies, literary NFTs are digital assets that are coined on the blockchain as NFTs or non-fungible tokens. It’s a digital literary work that has been lately dominating the online world.

Mr. Howard, a retired book editor, is the author of the forthcoming “The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature.” Critical discourse concerning the state of literature in ...