In 1919, the young E.B. White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr. Strunk ...

VANCOUVER — “Your team won a game in which you blew a third-period lead and also trailed four to nothing.” It’s a declarative sentence, rather than a question. It’s also a simple recitation of facts ...

The New York Times rounds up the back and forth on the "paper" this week, published on the Palestinian Authority’s Information Ministry website, that the Western Wall has no real Jewish connection.

For readers of a certain age, grammar was an essential part of the English curriculum. I vividly remember learning about parts of speech in elementary school, and then moving on to diagramming ...

“You didn’t wear the mask, did you?” Mom asked me sternly. It was actually more of a declarative sentence. I was on the phone with her a week after I had told her my husband got the flu. She has ...

Author Walter Isaacson is drawn to minds that bend the world. He writes about men who catch lightning, who bottle reason, who ...