Mastery of banal style is losing its usefulness – but language is more powerful than ever. It’s up to the writer to do what machines can’t I recently heard an exchange at a playground that should ...

Six Democratic lawmakers are pressing the nation's top intelligence official to publicly disclose whether Americans who use commercial VPN services risk being treated as foreigners under United States ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The last time Eric Idle’s “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” spoof musical “Spamalot” landed at a major L.A. venue ...

Suspicion and affection. Apprehension and excitement. Most people have mixed feelings about AI English, whether or not they always recognize it. When reading text generated by AI, people feel it ...

“Python’s Kiss” collects a baker’s dozen stories, nine of which previously have been published in the New Yorker and elsewhere (each is illustrated with a drawing by the author’s daughter, Aza Erdrich ...

In medieval Denmark, people could pay for more prestigious graves closer to the church — a sign of wealth and status. But when researchers examined hundreds of skeletons, they discovered something ...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp confirmed that Anthropic's Claude is still being used in the company's tools despite the startup's blackisting by the Pentagon. The Defense Department designated Anthropic a ...

State authorities have charged three Reading men with stealing customer account information, then making purchases to the tune of $50,000 at five Lowe’s stores across Pennsylvania. Joel ...

The Oct. 27, 2025, article “Novels vs. Excerpts: What to Know About a Big Reading Debate ” and related reporting about reading instruction resonated with me. I’m fortunate enough to spend time in ...

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It's like a bookmark across time and space. Credit: Spotify If you're like me and tend to read physical books while listening to the audiobook, dismayed at the inconvenience of time spent away from ...

On a summer day, sitting near the window of his study at his home in Oxford, England, J.R.R. Tolkien paused while grading papers to scribble the first sentence of his first novel: “In a hole in the ...