"Smoot" is one of 10,000 new words featured in the fifth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary, out this month. In an era when every definition is just a click away, why publish an enormous book ...
Perhaps the biggest collection of words ever assembled has just gone online: 500 billion of them, from 5 million books published over the past four centuries. The words make up a searchable database ...
Some children’s books tell stories, some only hint at them. With a combination of disquieting pictures and gently provocative language, Chris Van Allsburg’s “The Mysteries of Harris Burdick” (1984) ...