Johnny Depp has once again set off alarms—and excitement—in Hollywood with a project that feels as extravagant as it is ...

Quotidian, derived from Latin for 'daily,' describes ordinary, routine aspects of everyday life. This adjective, carrying no ...

This debut novel is a mystery in which a dictionary editor at Oxford turns to word-sleuthing in order to unravel a family ...

Across Michigan, civics and social studies are disappearing from K-12 school curriculums, while children and young adults ...

An Oxford professor and renowned critic, he was pugnacious, fearless and disdainful of the received wisdom of his intellectual milieu.

There has been a longstanding discussion in the reading wars since the 1950s, when the novel “Why Johnny Can’t Read” ...

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?