Now that I have your attention, I’d like to talk about dangling participles. This most famous of danglers is must-know stuff for any self-respecting smarty-pants. Not because the concept will help ...

Recently, the Los Angeles Times described the movie "Dheepan" as being about Sri Lankan refugees trying to escape ''their violent past in France." That made reader Rod do a double-take. ''There's a ...

I was sitting on my back porch, listening to the drumbeat of a summer downpour, when I heard a voice. With the next flash of lightning, I saw a man standing at my door. “Hey, Doc,” he said, “let me in ...

The New Yorker published an article last November by staff writer Rebecca Mead on the growing popularity of podcasts. It began this way: “In 1936, Walter Benjamin, the German philosopher and cultural ...

Yuko, 38, an office worker, has keitai straps appropriate for each season -- furry ones for winter and beaded ones for summer. When the temperature changes, she adds another to her collection. "It ...