For National Poetry Month, I’ve curated a playlist of seven songs that represent poetic devices like allusion, irony and rhyme. I call it “the wordplaylist.” Prepare to be taken back to middle school ...
Renowned Hindi poet Vinod Kumar Shukla has won the 59th Jnanpith Award for his groundbreaking work. His poetry blends the ...
A fresh light—and a glaring one—is being shone on these murky matters by a new production of “Much Ado About Nothing” at the ...
In an LLM, an apple isn’t a fruit—it’s a position in 12,288-dimensional space, waiting to become meaning the moment you ask ...
How many vowels are in today's Wordle? There are two vowels out of the five letters in the word today. What kind of letter does today's Wordle start with? Today's Wordle begins wi ...
Doggerel! There I said it. Sometimes words just wander through my mind on their way to somewhere else. That one drifted through just the other morning as I was accompanying Lucy, the Ambassador of ...
Gossip entertains, and it also sustains. In Jane Austen’s novel “Persuasion,” the sober heroine, Anne Elliot, pays a visit to ...
The Madhouse presents before its readers places which have all been taken over by the Bazaar and its influence on society ...
In the latest in a series looking at Shakespeare’s references to birds, Steve Sutherland has the lark in his sights.