Most people know a good sentence when they read one, but New York Times columnist Stanley Fish says most of us don't really know how to write them ourselves. His new book, How To Write A Sentence: And ...

You probably hardly pay any attention to it, as it is natural to us. You are doing it right now and you are very talented at it. You also do it when you talk on the phone. When you hang out with your ...

One year ago this month, a Springfield District Court judge saw a man he had recently sentenced to a year in the House of Correction stand in front of him in handcuffs because he had allegedly been ...

Writers can create tension in both of these ways using something as simple as varying their sentence lengths. Fiction writers can grab and hold their reader’s attention by creating tension. This can ...

Changes are in the pipeline for the sentencing of sex offenders. But what principles govern how long a criminal is jailed for? During the reign of George I a person could be executed for posing as a ...

Members of the Hinduja family and their lawyers arrive to court in Geneva in January 2024. On Friday, four members of the billionaire Hinduja family were each sentenced by a Swiss court to varying ...