When I was a freshman at New York University, the manual for the requisite speech course was titled, “Handbook of Objective Speaking.” At the beginning of the course, I assumed that “objective” was a ...

Taking the voice of Jim, the "enslaved runaway" in "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Percival Everett gives us a "coolly electric first-person narrative" in this "majestic" novel, said The New York ...

British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) sat in his study in Gads Hill near Rochester, Kent circa 1860. He wrote one of the best first lines in literature. Great opening lines to books set the ...