A recent article in The Chronicle reported allegations about plagiarism by Frank Fischer (“Alan Sokal, the 1996 Hoaxer, Takes Aim at an Accused Plagiarist at Rutgers,” October 14). As scholars in the ...

From Jane Austen to James Patterson, every author has their own way of writing. And that writing is often discussed in terms of “style.” Essentially, style refers to “how” something is written — it is ...

David Velleman started a magazine to put the heart back into philosophy. Philosophical writing used to consist of wide-ranging, creative essays that were grounded in technique, but still accessible to ...

Recently, I chanced upon a book review by the British author and literary critic Terry Eagleton, published two years ago in the London Review of Books. The book he had reviewed is about Karl Marx’s ...

An interesting essay might be written on the possession of an atheistic literary style. There is such a thing. The mark of it is that wherever anything is named or described, such words are chosen as ...