This year marks the English novelist’s 250th birthday. Her hundreds of surviving letters—both real and fictional—offer valuable insights into her imaginative wit and enduring appeal Ellen Wexler - ...

Editor’s Note: A recent satirical letter in The Chronicle Review provoked a lot of controversy online. Here is one of two perspectives on the letter and the reactions it elicited. You can read the ...

Remember letters -- those words of devotion, or news, or sympathy -- those missives of life that we exchanged with each other. As emails, tweets, Facebook entries and instant messages continue their ...

"May the force be with you." "Now, you're in the sunken place." Even if you haven’t read and watched the books, TV shows or movies those phrases come from, you’ve likely heard most of them. That, in ...

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In his letter titled " Critical race theory is not about history," William Smith writes: "CRT teaches white students they are the cause of society’s problems because they have the wrong skin color.