Marja Mills

Oprah's books are back: After a 10-month hiatus, Oprah Winfrey's book club, a publishing industry phenomenon, is returning to the airwaves. But with a twist. Winfrey said this week that...

Education John Katzman, CEO of the Princeton Review: "A major state will announce that its high school graduation test will serve as an alternative entrance test to its university system,...

Election Night coverage on TV tends to become a marathon of long-windedness. On the other hand, with the right sense of appreciation, there's a certain modern poetry to it all...

Spread by e-mail, Web sites and plain old-fashioned word-of-mouth, new words bounce around English faster than dictionary editors, or anyone else, can track. Often, people come up with new terms...

Feb. 16: "We're a Reader of Nations" A trend in book titles--the "Something Nation" formulation--hit full force in 2000 and early 2001, we reported last winter. Seeking hip titles with...

This week, we revisit stories that ran in this section during the previous year. From toasted ant eggs in Mexico to single motherhood March 27: "Restaurants Exposed: chef Anthony Bourdain;...

Murals have spontaneity on their side. These are not carefully framed paintings you go to a museum to study. Murals are at their best when they surprise you, when you...