The preceding chapter showed how sentences can be streamlined by reducing their adjective clauses to adjective phrases — a simple process that omits the relative pronouns “that,” “which,” “who,” “whom ...

But as the knife descends, “she screams, evidently perceiving how final is finality.” Spark’s kill count is often taken as ...

I’m going to do something I’ve never done before in this column: I’m going to recommend a book whose author occasionally ...

It’s a great coup for the National Theatre to have tempted Nicola Coughlan back to the stage from the stellar televisual ...

The mark of fluent English-language writers or speakers is the way they effortlessly do away with words mandated by formal grammar, but which only impede the quick delivery of their ideas. Nonnative ...

Michigan fired head coach Sherrone Moore for cause Wednesday for an alleged relationship with a staff member following a ...

Writers versed in its conventions and a bit of continental philosophy could ostensibly churn out meaningless affectations ...

Sherrone Moore’s worries don’t stop at his felony charges. His “for cause” firing means Michigan is off the hook for paying him this eye-watering amount.

Hungarian novelist Laszlo Krasznahorkai's writing carries a Kafkaesque aura, influenced by Russian culture. This fusion, ...

The Dallas Stars' financial argument for a potential move to Plano focuses on addressing four economic pain points: ...

A federal judge threw out the criminal charges against the former F.B.I. director James Comey after finding that the prosecutor President Trump handpicked to bring the cases had been illegally ...

While it was known that the Saints have received additional millions of dollars from the AFL, financial statements give a ...