“Those who wring their hands about the decline of the language sometimes worry too much about the wrong things. They + more
“Those who wring their hands about the decline of the language sometimes worry too much about the wrong things. They + more
The 2020 winners of Nikon’s annual Small World photomicrography competition have been announced. Prepare to be dazzled. Why are some + more
AMONG THE ROCKS Robert Browning Oh, good gigantic smile o’ the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets + more
In 1972, my home town of Chewelah, Washington was recognized as an All-America City. As a kid, I remember it + more
In an otherwise interesting essay reflecting on nearly two decades of running a record label, Alec Hanley Bemis offers up + more
Happy Monday! I’ve put together some interesting reads to help you start your week off right. You’re welcome. Elle Hunt + more
I’m not exactly one of those guys with his finger on the pulse of, well…anything, really. So naturally I’m a + more
The late Clive James, from his final book The Fire of Joy, out tomorrow: My understanding of what a poem + more
I feel much the same about presidential debates as I do golf: It’s time that I’ll never, ever get back. + more
As the decades have come and gone, I’ve had my hands on a majority of the projects that have passed + more
Big day today, everyone—big day: “A celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks, and other proper uses of + more
Today is the first day of autumn. Or, as I like to refer to it, that day in September when + more
If Al Franken drawing a map of the United States from memory can’t bring us all together as a nation, + more
“The old man the boats.” “The prime number few.” “Fat people eat accumulates.” There’s a clever linguistic term for these + more
Shot: “I sometimes wonder if there have not been two great disasters in the history of modern letters: the first when + more