Had they merely read the summary, my students would have seen many of the same words, but they’d have lacked the feeling part.

Throughout my teaching career at independent schools, which began during the Clinton administration, I’ve also been telling ...

February is National Haiku Writing Month. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of February. "Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s ...

ourneys of personal connection and kinship, interwoven with complex themes of the country’s politics, culture, media, ...

I had a surprisingly positive middle school English experience. I remember my teacher holding “A Separate Peace” aloft, ...

In early 1882, an overheard conversation between two Korean students staying at a hotel in Tokyo was recorded in an English-language newspaper. One student, fluent in Japanese, told his companion that ...

Eminent Distorians’ by Utpal Kumar is not a filtered history; it is neither economical nor political with truth, scooping out ...

The proliferation of "y'all" points to a global cultural shift toward more inclusive language and merging traditions.

Write what you know.” For John Counts, that’s a fascinating journey: Sipping pop in northern Michigan bars as a child while ...

We look at "Universal Language," a new movie that follows three storylines in a city that is a cross between Winnipeg and Tehran.

She was awarded a Danforth Fellowship for graduate studies in English, after having graduated magna cum ... Julie Boglisch, author, Elifer Chronicles Shelves overflowing with books line her home, and ...

These iconic book lines and recognized by everyone, regardless of whether you've read the title, seen the movie adaptation, ...