Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for many decades, has ...

Nicholas Ostler, in his 2005 book Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, observes that the great languages have generally been the languages of the greatest traders and, especially, ...

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Asking customers for a relatively small deposit (much less than the cost of a cinema ticket), to secure their booking, is a logical and fair way of nudging customers to make good on their intention.

When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in 1918, he sought to enliven the stuffy Victorian conventions of biographical writing by portraying his subjects with warts and all. In his ...

Two-thirds of people think the increase in the price of a first-class stamp over the past five years is unfair, new data ...

Six takeaways from another energy-filled Carnival season in Trinidad, home to the Caribbean's biggest bacchanal.

After holding Rümeysa Öztürk at ICE’s field office in St. Albans the night of March 25, court filings show, ICE officials placed her on a flight out of the Burlington airport. The State ...

A drafted policy revision by the Board of Education seeks to remove certain books from Somerset County Public Schools (SCPS) ...

Editor: As a recently published author, I would like to sing the praises of the Loudoun County Public Library system and its ...