Online content written in the present tense is considerably more persuasive. Recent research unveils that, although people commonly narrate events in the past tense, conveying the information in the ...

It wouldn’t be a Man Booker Prize shortlist without a controversy in the British press, but this year’s furor — launched by one-time Booker judge Philip Hensher — may strike some readers as a bit ...

Some writers like to use the present tense to tell a story in order to give the impression that it is happening right now. In fiction writing the present tense can create a dramatic effect and make ...

The tenses in the English language unnerve many writers, especially the younger ones. They have the tendency to shift tenses for no obvious reasons. At times, the shift infects a particular sentence.

From Hilary Mantel and David Mitchell to Goldsmith’s prize winner Kevin Barry, more and more writers are adopting this way of storytelling to bring immediacy and intimacy to their work It was ...