One of my favorite things in the world is Slightly Foxed: the Real Reader’s Quarterly. It’s a quarterly magazine, published in London, that features short essays written by people about books they ...

If only there had been data mining around in Aristotle’s time. The Greek philosopher was one of the first to try to define how many different stories there are in the world. He believed that every ...

Your mind is the scene of the crime. Up until this point we haven't known anything at all about the plot of Christopher Nolan's new action movie Inception, besides that it's sci-fi and "set within the ...

One of my favorite things in the world is Slightly Foxed: the Real Reader’s Quarterly. It’s a quarterly magazine, published in London, that features short essays written by people about books they ...

Nearing a million views on YouTube is a four-minute clip of a lecture by Kurt Vonnegut. He draws two axes on a chalkboard: beginning to end, ill fortune to good fortune. When the hero rejoices, the ...

The seven basic plots are: overcoming the monster; rags to riches; the quest; voyage and return; comedy; tragedy; rebirth. Christopher Booker begins by establishing the endurance of these plots in ...

There have been rumblings of a new Saw film ever since Saw 3D, the seventh and, at the time, final entry in the series hit theaters. As with the other entries, the ending left itself open to a sequel, ...