What a beautiful feeling one gets when reading, say, the careful, musical writing of an Irwin Shaw short story, his elegant, sonorous, guileful prose filled with poetic felicities. Or Papa Hemingway’s ...

Italo Calvino’s novella is made up of 55 short descriptions of imaginary cities. Venetian merchant and explorer Marco Polo tells these stories to Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, as he describes the ...

AI writing may often read poorly, but that doesn’t always mean it’s easy to catch. AI detector software looks for surface signals such as word frequency, sentence length variation, statistical ...

If you’re a writer in the modern age, chances are you spend a good chunk of your time staring at a Google Docs interface. It’s become the de facto standard for collaborative writing, quick drafts, and ...

Writing from year after gross indecency arrest challenges ‘isolated mathematician’ image, says Cambridge academic When people think of Alan Turing, they might imagine he was arrogant, isolated, ...

You, dear reader, could be that new sun, but first you need to do your homework. You need to figure out what all's out there ...

A Cambridge professor has transcribed a handwritten story that the famous mathematician wrote in the year before his death, presenting a different side of him. By Claire Moses Reporting from London ...

AI can draft quickly, but you still have to supply the plot, the turning point, and concrete details that make writing worth reading.

China is increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI), big data and advanced digital communication tools to shape international perceptions on Tibet, according to a report. The report by ...

This article is the first of five installments in our Writing to Persuade: An Appellate Lawyer’s Guide to Legal Writing series. Part ...

Share your story with the community and enter for a chance to be published in Palo Alto Weekly and on Palo Alto Online. The Palo Alto Weekly Short Story Contest invites local writers to submit ...