While such narrative features as 'Nomadland' and the docu-comedy 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' lean into reality, this season's docs 'Collective,' 'My Octopus Teacher' and 'The Mole Agent' play more ...

Schmälzle, who uses neuroimaging in order to study how stories create convergent audience reactions (“which is a slightly more technical term for how stories unite us,” he said), underlined that while ...

In Adam Johnson’s “The Wayfinder,” a highlight in a strong year of fiction, a young woman on a Polynesian island more than 500 years in the past ponders the significance of a whale that has beached on ...

Fiction, narrative and cognitive value constitute a dynamic triad that underpins both literary expression and human cognition. Fiction offers imaginative constructs that not only engage but also ...