Etymology Nerd, aka Adam Aleksic, unpacks where teen slang comes from — and why it evolves too fast for adults to keep up.

Scott Johnson’s murder case became synonymous with a movement to redress anti-gay violence in Australia. But the evidence ...

John Updike worried that success would make him lazy. But his literary output—and his letters—kept up the pace.

In Crito and Phaedo, Plato takes this alliance between Socrates and poetry further, attributing to Socrates direct acts of poetic composition in plays, hymns, and fables, conferring on him the title ...