(Editor’s note: “How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times” is the fourth in a series of writing and language books written by Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark and published by Little, Brown, beginning ...

In the two decades since he published his book “Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word,” Randall Kennedy has witnessed the persistence of the n-word as “an oft-heard feature of the ...

Description: This is a dog lover's introduction into one of if not my favorite breed. The boerboel, aka the South African Mastiff, is a highly intelligent dog with keen instincts for guarding and ...