For more than two decades, Boise Weekly has honored thrifty writers. I see your furrowed brow — when we say “thrifty” we mean words, not money. This is the 22nd year for BW’s Fiction 101 contest, in ...

If you are a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, you have likely heard the term “stud” being used to describe masculine women. However, according to Merriam-Webster, the word originates from Old English ...

Mystery 101 is series of mystery TV movies series about a professor of English literature who specializes in mystery fiction and a police detective.

Kristoffer Polaha and Jill Wagner star in Hallmark’s “Mystery 101: Words Can Kill.” Crown Media / Kailey Schwerman Jill Wagner and Kristoffer Polaha return for another installment of their Hallmark ...

People are descending on Elmstead College in Garrison, Washington for the Mystery Book Festival, organized in part by English Professor Amy Winslow, who specializes in crime fiction, and which has as ...

Extracts from ‘A Wonderland of Words: Around the Word in 101 Essays’ by Shashi Tharoor. This extract is from the chapter Trademarks in Language One of the signs of our times is how many words we ...