This won't come as a surprise to anyone, but people love books with a crazy plot twist. Some authors thrill readers with twist after twist, while others wait until the final lines of their novels to ...

In July 2016, a group of American scientists from the University of Vermont made headlines when they published some preliminary research about novels in English; an algorithm about their emotional ...

Character-driven versus plot-driven stories: Readers of literary fiction often claim the former while just about everyone else stakes the latter. (Just look at the bestseller lists.) But they are not ...