Storytelling

Novelists, Trust Me: You Can Really Learn a Lot About Storytelling From Video Games Like Elden Ring

Nick Newman Considers the Act of Writing as a Form of (Game) Play

 
By Nick Newman  January 30, 2025
Storytelling

Why Absolute Truth is Still Worth Pursuing In a Narrative-Driven World

By Jay Nicorvo  January 27, 2025
Storytelling

Simple Yet Profound: On the Timelessness of Aesop’s Fables

By Robin Waterfield  October 24, 2024
Storytelling

On the Yemeni Jewish Tradition of Musical Storytelling

By Ayelet Tsabari  September 12, 2024
Storytelling

Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What The Decameron Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety

By Ed Simon  August 5, 2024
Storytelling

“Tell It To Me Singing.” On Diaspora, Community and Cuban-American Stories

By Tita Ramirez  July 11, 2024
Storytelling

“No Nights (or Chapters) Off.” And Other Grown Up Lessons From Reading to My Kids

By Mark Cecil  March 26, 2024
Storytelling

Memories Aren’t Enough: Why Sometimes Only Fiction Can Solve the Mysteries of Life

By Emily Schultz  January 3, 2024
Storytelling

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto On The Many Ways To Tell a Hawaiian Story

By Megan Kamalei Kakimoto  August 29, 2023
Storytelling

Harold R. Johnson on How We Tell Our Own Stories

By Harold R. Johnson  October 24, 2022
Storytelling

The Novels We Wrote When We Were 17: Adam Langer on High School Rumors and Storytelling

By Adam Langer  August 4, 2022
Storytelling

Thwarted Passions, Private Lives: On Out-of-Control Characters in Literary Fiction

By Lisa Harding  December 7, 2021
Storytelling

Why Stories Are Like Taking Drugs

By Jonathan Gottschall  November 24, 2021
Storytelling

On the Subversive Power of Gossip

By Maria Tatar  September 15, 2021
Storytelling

The Benefits of People-Watching: How My Weird Subway Ritual Became a Storytelling Device

By Nora Zelevansky  July 27, 2021
Storytelling

Plot Is Just Music You Sing In Your Mind: How Popular Rock Songs Can Help Shape Your Novel

By Katie Crouch  July 14, 2021
Storytelling

How Many “Types” of Stories Are There? And Can They Save Us?

By David Chrisinger  July 7, 2021
Storytelling

On the Evolutionary Uses of Storytelling

By Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Scönberger, and Francis de Véricourt  May 24, 2021
Storytelling

Writing From Inside the Precarious Hunger of Childhood

By Linda Rui Feng  May 24, 2021
Storytelling

A Witness to the Human Experience: Why Medicine Needs Storytellers

By David Weill, MD  May 20, 2021
Storytelling

Is Fabulism the New Sincerity?

By Brenda Peynado  May 17, 2021
Storytelling

On the Valuable Writing Lessons I Learned as a Television Reporter

By Nancy Johnson  April 1, 2021
Storytelling

Tell Don’t Show? What Brain Imaging Reveals About Readers

By Lisa Cron  March 17, 2021
Storytelling

Bill T. Jones on the Uneasy Liaison Between Storytellers and Listeners

By Bill T. Jones  November 20, 2020
Storytelling

Why Stories Makes Sense of Our Lives (and Relationships)

By Frank Tallis  July 22, 2020
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