Thank you for this entry in the “worst mother-in-law of the year” contest. Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers ...

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Once upon a time—actually about two years ago—I was asked to work on the Catwalk book about Jean Paul Gaultier. Upon looking at an Excel sheet that listed all of ...

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Among all creatures on earth, human beings have the unique ability to communicate with words. Yet we were not the first to speak. God, whose voice formed the universe, created us in His image that we ...

LANGUAGE ON VACATION by Dmitri A. Borgmann. 318 pages. Scribner. $6.95. Subbookkeeper is the only English word that contains four successive pairs of letters. Triennially is one of the very few ...