Max Porter’s stories of people on the margins are told in fragments, flickering images, surprising swirls of language and wit ...

As wind-whipped walls of flame destroyed hundreds of Los Angeles-area residences last January, one media report framed the ...

To clarify aspects of multiple sclerosis that might be confusing, columnist Ben Hofmeister tries to use humor, analogies, and metaphors.

“The ordering of the operations ‘putting shoes on’ and ‘putting socks on’ therefore matters,” Schwichtenberg had written, ...

Key points One way of understanding the allegory is by understanding the smaller metaphor. A metaphor is a sentence or short segment equating two seemingly unrelated things; similes and analogies ...