List of All Articles with Tag 'writing'

The Vindolanda tablets tell us a lot about life in early Roman Britain.

From James Baldwin to Gertrude Stein and beyond, literature’s most celebrated authors have faced stinging and ruthless rejections.

The literal meaning of ‘sic’ is ‘so’ or ‘thus.’ But the way writers use it is a little more nuanced.

‘Little Women’ author Louisa May Alcott was also an early suffragette who fought against slavery and registered women to vote.

Forget about the funny pages. If Kay Powell wrote for your paper, you dove straight into the death notices.

If you want to expand your horror reading beyond Stephen King, look no further than this list, which features everyone from Mariana Enriquez to Stephen Graham Jones and beyond.

Bullet journaling is all about clarity and organization, and this bookmark-shaped stencil card makes it easy.

Many bad words come and go, but these six have withstood the tests of time. Here’s how they came to be.

‘Less’ versus ‘fewer’ is pretty straightforward. ‘Less than’ vs. ‘fewer than’ is slightly less so. Here’s how to get it right every time.

Don’t get embarrassed if you can’t spell ‘embarrass.’ It’s apparently—not ‘apparantly’—a pretty common error.

You can’t spell ‘hearty’ without ‘heart,’ or ‘hardy’ without ‘hard.’

Invented by Louis Braille in 1824, the tactile braille system has helped blind people read and write for nearly 200 years.