In today's fast-paced digital world, language is evolving at the speed of a text message. Social media has become the new arena where words are born, reshaped, and spread globally within seconds.

Writers versed in its conventions and a bit of continental philosophy could ostensibly churn out meaningless affectations ...

It’s that time of the year when PBS News Hour invites two of our regular literary critics, Ann Patchett and Maureen Corrigan, ...

One telling example is the label “Rachel from accounts”, used by some to denigrate Reeves. This is not simply a dig, it is a gendered metaphor that places Reeves in a clerical, subordinate role – the ...

Poetry offers something that news and visual imagery cannot in times of crisis: depth over immediacy and meaning over ...

Hu Anyan’s I Deliver Parcels in Beijing is a record of fleeting impressions, irritations, and reflections from the edges of ...

A Ruth Asawa catalog for the disenchanted, artsy almanac for the planners, Prospect Park photo book for the New Yorkers, ...

The 68-year-old Russian sociologist is one of Putin's most prominent political prisoners, but he was already one in Brezhnev's USSR. From prison, he says he feels freer to express his opinions. He is ...

And pessimism about the potential for education reform, once limited to the political fringes, seems to be gaining mainstream ...