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 ...

With some 130million books in existence, it's hard to fathom how the literary sphere's wealth of storylines could be boiled down into just six different categories. But a professor is now claiming ...