Seattle satirist Maria Semple’s breakthrough novel is a flurry of contemporary, epistolary wit. Passive aggressive e-mail ...

Marc Dunkelman is a fellow in international and public affairs at Brown University’s Watson Institute, and one of the ...

I had a surprisingly positive middle school English experience. I remember my teacher holding “A Separate Peace” aloft, ...

In fact, some of the most common English words are nonphonetic. For example, the words to and do do not rhyme with so or go.

The Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina compiled stories of women resisting the Russian invasion. After she was killed, ...

Lancaster County resident Al Iannello took a rotting sugar maple tree in his front yard and transformed the remains into a ...