Linguistics scholars have even theorised that elements of a Yiddish accent may have influenced the cockney accent as it ...

Brian Glanville, who has died aged 93, was a literary polymath best known as a colossus of football writing.

With any luck, a new creative writing club will join Fairmont State University’s pantheon of existing writing clubs next year. In a collaboration between written arts and visual arts with the ...

Astrology suggests some zodiac signs possess inherent language skills, making English mastery easier. Gemini, ruled by ...

Acclaimed detective novelist Dror Mishani explains why he turned to nonfiction in 'The Ground Floor' in the wake of Oct. 7.

First taught in 1907, “Daily Themes” is one of Yale College’s most legendary English courses. Each weekday, students submit ...

The Austrian-German writer’s new novel The Director explores totalitarianism through a fictionalised account of the Nazi-era ...

Dedicated teachers are always remembered by their students. For this journalist, one such teacher is Choy Sook Ling, 81, ...

Have you ever tried to write a five-page essay in a language you weren’t fluent in? It’s an onerous task that some students ...

For Rob Franciosi, coming to the fountain pen later in scholarly life has been a revelation. For the past two years, during ...

She held in her hand a highball glass, from which she had apparently managed to spill not one drop of her cocktail.

The Hamilton and Grant biographer, out with a new study on Mark Twain, speaks to VF about the best and worst of the iconic ...