There is great power in doing nothing. —Lao Tzu, paraphrased The usual narrative arc of this kind of essay begins with a real-life story to illustrate a psychological issue of interest ...

In If Only, the Norwegian novelist distills a story of romance into all its private discomfort and claustrophobia. Its ...

In one episode, Shan Cai also flipped the damsel in distress trope when Dao Ming Si punished the people who wronged her—by ...

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For boomers, the rapid reversal of 1960s-era gains for civil rights, women, LGBTQ, etc., has unraveled the story of our lifetimes.

She knows that readers always know that the end of the story, happy or tragic, is not quite like life: There are always too many loose ends, continuations. We accept that a narrative is a fragment ...

No greater example of this exists than the eight-season arc of Dr. Mark Greene (Anthony ... I remember confronting, in a way that felt extremely personal, the idea of my parents’ mortality ...

Watching TV heartthrob George Clooney rescue a boy from drowning in a storm drain in Season 2 of “ER” made me realize two things when I was 8 years old: ...