ENGLISH has two emphatic tense forms that emphasize actions or states happening in the present and those that occurred in the past. Before discussing them, however, we must strongly keep in mind that ...

Experiments with dogs, chimpanzees and other intelligent animals show that humans aren't the only beings who are able to learn the meanings of words. What distinguishes us is our ability to string ...

“Beneath those white shirts were arms and chests and shoulders full of a workingman’s strength—powerful they had to be, to pull and pull on leather all their lives, to squeeze out of every skin every ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1919, the young EB White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell ...