“How to Tell a Story: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers,” by Pepperdine professor Philip Freeman, is a lively new translation geared for maximum ...

So, no, this book felt much more like a return — there’s even a character from the first novel who reappears. The novel poses the question: How do you tell an immigrant story? Where do you begin?

The Narrative Brain: The Stories Our Neurons Tell by Fritz Breithaupt ... Echoing Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Story Paradox (Basic Books, 2021), Breithaupt warns that our addiction to ...

Alissa Wilkinson’s new book, “We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine,” hopes thus to reckon with how Didion, perhaps the 20th century’s canniest observer of ...