Johanna Drucker is Breslauer professor and distinguished professor emerita in information studies at UCLA. She is the author of “Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the ...

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Bruce Springsteen has dropped a new song and video called “Letter to You,” the first track from his new album of the same name, which is arriving on Oct. 23. Described in the press release as “A rock ...

The British actor said that seeing the casting announcement for the new Ron, Harry and Hermione in HBO's upcoming series took ...

Jimin's secret song off his debut solo album, "Face," isn't so secret anymore. In celebration of BTS's 10th anniversary Festa, Jimin filmed a live performance of his track "Letter," which only ...

It’s now used to indicate sex and gender beyond the binary. But X has always been powerful. By Alex Marzano-Lesnevich As a bookish child, I loved most of all an anthology of stories that sat high on ...

A slightly older but much wiser Lil Nas X gives some sage advice to his younger self in the just-released new song and video — "Sun Goes Down." The moving new track details a dark time in the artist's ...

The music video opens with a scene of Lil Nas X getting sentenced to prison in a trial. The scene is an allusion to an earlier YouTube promotion in which the artist satirized his copyright ...

At 21 years old, Lil Nas X is doing something his 14-year-old self never thought possible. The "Old Town Road" superstar never imagined he would come out publicly, he explained on Friday, March 26. He ...

The letter “x” often symbolizes something unknown, with an air of mystery that can be appealing. Illustration by Meilan Solly Even though “x” is one of the least-used letters in the English alphabet, ...

While looking through her 1-year-old niece’s books, one woman got a shock after discovering what an alphabet book had picked to represent the letter X. Karen Thomas Mahoney, from North Carolina, ...

While looking through her 1-year-old niece’s books, one woman got a shock after discovering what an alphabet book had picked to represent the letter X. Karen Thomas Mahoney, from North Carolina, ...