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 ...

READING THIS sentence, it may occur to you that something is slightly awry with it. Or you may not notice anything wrong at all. The first three words are a “dangling modifier”. This writing fault has ...

"After 20 years in a box, Monica Iken is ironing her wedding dress …" Those words began a profile by a TV journalist whose work I have always admired — the CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman. His ...