Can evolutionary biology explain the human impulse to create? By Natalie Angier.

Many of the students at Mount Sinai's medical school in New York majored in English or history, and never took the MCAT. The school sees that diversity among its students as a great strength.

The social networks behind one of the most famous literary controversies of all time have been uncovered using modern networks science.

From Eliot to Steiner, Debord to Martel, Some Ideas on the Death of Meaning. By Mario Vargas Llosa. (Sept. 6, 2016)

Old barriers between the humanities and technology are falling. Skills needed in jobs today require knowledge that crosses the road from technology to humanities and back, says professor Adam Frank.

In wartime, the walls of the latrine provide a rare opportunity for self-expression. By Scott Beauchamp.

As technology advances, doomsayers stay constant. By Michael Dirda.

Which lynching poems get taught, which do not, and why. By Hollis Robbins.

Ben Merriman reviews “Distant Reading” and “The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature” by Franco Moretti, as well as “Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History” and “Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature” by Matthew Jockers.

In the past decade, digital scholarship has gone from being a quirky corner of the humanities to a mainstream phenomenon.

One of North Korea’s most senior diplomats warned on Monday that if any effort was made to charge the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, with crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, the North would take unspecified “countermeasures.”