It wouldn’t be a Man Booker Prize shortlist without a controversy in the British press, but this year’s furor — launched by one-time Booker judge Philip Hensher — may strike some readers as a bit ...

You know how the joke begins: “A guy walks into a bar…” But wait, for you to know the punch line, this has to be past tense. So wouldn’t it be, “A guy walked into a bar…?” It could be. But usually it ...

The present was in the news in an unusually literal way this week. Philip Pullman, the author of, most recently, “The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ,” expressed his displeasure with the fact ...

Students: forget about MLA citation, present-tense narration, and subject-verb agreement. It’s time to start writing for fun again. On Saturday, April 9, the Poetry Center and the Office of Religious ...