This year's Haunting Hooks competition, judged by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron, dared contestants to write an original opening to a spooky story about cursed objects SAN MATEO, ...

Mr. Tersigni is a cultural critic. Have you ever obeyed the suggestions of a digital writing assistant to replace a word or restructure a sentence without knowing how, why or even if it made your ...

Or would you have to look up the word adamantine? That word appeared in a column in the New York Times by Maureen Dowd, sizing up Nikki Haley’s campaign against Donald Trump. Dowd wrote that Haley ...

Dictionary writing is “a kind of writing that wants to go unnoticed,” says Joseph M. Romero, an assistant professor of classics at Mary Washington College. “It may disconcert the reader to learn that ...