Every family has random words they invent for things--like sticking cold feet under someone's butt ("nurdeling"). Author/illustrator Rinee Shah collected real-l

Argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented the invention of language thesis - the idea that language is a cultural innovation tha

Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consc

Confident or fretful, solemn or sassy, tough or tender, casual or formal: the self you project in writing—your persona—is the byproduct of numerous decision

Recovers poet May Swenson's fiction, criticism, and drama--and her correspondence with Elizabeth Bishop