Josh Clark and Judy Long get to the bottom of how a state historically limited in resources can have such scholarship and ...

For Martha Barnette, griping about grammatical pet peeves is one of the least interesting ways to talk about language. Instead, the co-host of the radio show “A Way with Words” says she’d rather think ...

Megan C. Reynolds takes on the biggest linguistic battle of our age. By Marisa Meltzer Marisa Meltzer is the author of “Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier.” When ...

Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati met on a blind date. "We share the same agent," explains Burgess. "She said, 'You need to meet this client of mine.'" Over coffee in Brooklyn, they discovered that they ...

Matthew McConaughey has always had a Texas-twang way with words - most famously with his signature "Dazed and Confused" line, "alright, alright, alright." Now the actor has turned his words a poetry ...

Whether we are living through a golden age for Gaeilge is debatable but this year's An Post Irish Book Awards feature more ...

MAC: Slate has asked us—indeed hired us—to talk about their big picture-book package, “The 25 Best Picture Books of the Past 25 Years.” (Did you like how I called it a “package”? Did it make me sound ...