Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. My favorite passage is about the intimacy of acquaintances. It’s a scene ...

Last week, I invited readers to send in the literary passages that most spoke to them and shaped them. Here’s Jen, with a passage from Dostoevsky: I first read The Brothers Karamazov when I was 17, on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Justin Cronin has deservedly hit the best-seller list with “The Passage,” one of the summer’s big books. The first volume in a planned trilogy, the story is ...

The Host is more or less Twilight with aliens... but it still has the odd moment of cosmic beauty: As I took another breath, I saw the three stars again. They were not calling to me; they were letting ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – While analytical, mathematically driven economists don't seem to have much in common with their abstract literary colleagues, a Purdue University professor's new book contends ...

As you decide whether to take the ACT or SAT – or both – consider what the passages on their respective reading tests are like. Here are six traits of ACT and SAT Reading passages that you should be ...