Connection, helping others, gratitude, kindness, staying active, and yes, consuming lots of calories all help us to find and ...

But McNally’s new memoir, I Regret Almost Everything is anything but the highlight reel. On the page, McNally is much more ...

Quite Literally Books, a new heritage publishing house, aims to get books written by American women from around a century ago ...

“A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,” according to the Biblical proverb. That reference is more to ...

Wilder wakes up one day suddenly able to speak and understand every language. But what seems like a wicked-cool ability turns out to be overwhelming in the endless stream of words flowing through the ...

Keith McNally tracks his staggering successes — and failures — in his new memoir, “I Regret Almost Everything.” ...

One of the first images to surface when you Google certain keywords is a picture of a bed in a student hostel, whose cover is ...

The book titles have been named after Indian music instruments ... For instance, the Class VI English textbook, earlier called Honeysuckle, has been renamed as ‘Poorvi’, a Hindi word meaning ‘eastern’ ...

Two new books examine efforts to standardize English ... The Story of Us in Seven Little Words, by John McWhorter A century ago, one of the richest men in the world decided to wade into the ...

THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE: SUPPLEMENT Two (933 pp.)—H. L. Mencken—Knopf ($7.50). With this fourth & final volume, H. L. Mencken has had his say on the peculiarities of U.S. speech. The final ...