Punctuation in Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (left) and in Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (right). This is, so they say, a...

"It's nice to be important. . . but it's more important to be nice."

I keep coming back to this ad over and over again, because of all the wheezy, hoary, creaky, hopelessly out-of-date cell phone ads I...

If you can remember this, you're old. Yes, OLD old. But given how dreadfully hackneyed TV dramas could be in the '60s, this ...

   

San Francisco tech worker: 'I don't want to see homeless riff-raff' In an open letter to the city’s mayor Ed Lee, entrepreneur J...

I seem to be obsessed with spring. This in spite of the fact it isn't even here yet: not for most of us. In the mild gloomy slick ...