Grammatical habits in written English reveal linguistic features of non-native speakers' languages, researchers report. The work could enable computers chewing through relatively accessible documents ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Can there be a political writer who has not fallen in love with George Orwell’s 1946 essay, “Politics and ...

The word essay comes from the French word ‘essayer’ meaning ‘to try’ or ‘to attempt’. A French writer called Michel de Montaigne invented the essay in Europe as his ‘attempt’ to write about himself ...

"The appeal of a work of art—a book, a sculpture—rises from faith that the work represents more than information. Despite certain disappointments, each newly discovered book dangles before us a single ...