Refugia Marin is a group seeking volunteers to help restore native vegetation around our county. The project aims to boost ...

Producing or directing, he made more than 50 films over 50 years, including a series on the English language and an ...

THE public will have the chance to walk in the footsteps of one of Britain's most iconic Romantic poets next weekend.

I hoard words, phrases, quotations and bits and pieces of information that interests me thinking I will use them in a column or story. When the file gets full to bursting I can’t just delete them, so ...

Solitude was a Romantic ideal. What separates it from loneliness? Alberti explores the two ideas through the lives and work ...

Similarly, Oliver Wendell Holmes suggests that children are the most truthful members of society, unencumbered by pretence ...

Innovations in literary writing have long been integral to the evolution of literature, with figures such as William Shakespeare revolutionizing the stage through inventive dramaturgy and poetic ...

In my earliest years, I awaited each playdate with barely restrained impatience, eager to climb monkey bars, roller-skate, or ...

Mr. Cran’s projects for PBS included a century-by-century exploration of the English language and a historical portrait of ...

My buddies and I went on a trout fishing trip in Canada, the likes of which we'll never see again in our lifetime.

As part of our Wknd special, we talk to modern historian Fay Bound Alberti, author of A Biography of Loneliness. So what does ...

The term 'stoner album' has been coined on the premise that music sounds more immersive when you're stoned. But is there any truth to it?