In “The Man Who Found Forrest Fenn’s Treasure,” Daniel Barbarisi uses the word solve five times. And in four of + more
In “The Man Who Found Forrest Fenn’s Treasure,” Daniel Barbarisi uses the word solve five times. And in four of + more
“People who have not published books are often appalled at typos,” writes Alan Jacobs, “because they think their presence means + more
The November 16, 1920 edition of the Spokane Daily Chronicle reports on a disturbing trend: University of Idaho undergraduates “intent + more
From the November 12, 1945 issue of Time magazine: In Manhattan’s Gimbel Bros., Inc., thousands of people all but trampled + more
“Those who wring their hands about the decline of the language sometimes worry too much about the wrong things. They + more
The late Clive James, from his final book The Fire of Joy, out tomorrow: My understanding of what a poem + 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
“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
According to Open Culture, Ursula K. Le Guin had the best work schedule: I don’t know the degree to which + more
“Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented culture, and doing nothing is hard to do. It’s + more
My brother-in-law sent this, from Wikipedia, via email this morning… …with a question: “Is Donald Campbell the son of Malcom + more
Just when I was starting to think that maybe—just maybe—millennials have been unfairly maligned, more evidence emerges that this generation + more
From Wesley McNair’s wonderful piece about the late poet Donald Hall and his assistant Kendel Currier, three things are abundantly + more