The field of literature, empathy, and narrative studies explores how literary narratives not only reflect cultural values but also actively shape social cognition and emotional understanding. Stories ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper takes up the venture of critical medical humanities to reread the workings and uses of narrative in narrative medicine pedagogy.

Fletcher’s Storythinking explains the vast role that storythinking plays in human affairs as chains of narratives drive ...

Tracy Kidder has written his sixth book, Mountains Beyond Mountains (Random House, 317 pages, $25.95). That is good news, because each of the first five is a well-reported, compellingly written ...

Literary studies investigate texts through a range of approaches that span traditional close reading and critical theory to modern computational, cognitive, and interdisciplinary methodologies. The ...

[Editor's Note: Lacy Crawford's name and title was incorrect in the original version of this article.] The magazine's start three years ago was modest, quiet, unheralded. It was not much more than an ...

*Originally published on March 7, 2023. We're immersed in stories from our earliest childhood. Narratives are how we come to know and understand the world and our place in it. Stories are absolutely ...