The debate about what to do with a criminal defendant who wants to lie on the witness stand goes back a half-century, to a 1966 Michigan law review article written by a young law professor and former ...

Set in Western Iowa at the end of World War I, Michelle Hoover's second novel, 'Bottomland,' is the story of one farming family struggling to come to grips with a horrible fate. When two of their ...

Storytelling is an engaging way through which lived experience can be shared and reflected upon, and a tool through which difference, diversity—and even conflict—can be acknowledged and elaborated ...

People love stories. We find it easier to remember events when they are part of an overarching narrative. But in real life, the chapters of a story don't follow smoothly one from another. Other things ...

Writing about trauma risks polishing the pain, forcing neat closures, and smoothing out what resists language altogether. It also risks dipping into the cliché or the sensational. So how does a writer ...