Sandra Dallas tells us, in a note at the front of this novel, that Tallgrass, a fictionalized internment camp for Japanese civilians during World War II, is based on Amache, a real-life camp set up in ...

There’s something dispiriting about the persistence of the Backstreet Boys, a “boy band” whose members should be well into their third midlife crises and fourth marriages, not their ninth studio album ...

One of the more interesting twists in the language, and one loaded with humorous possibilities, is the oxymoron. The term comes from an old Greek word that meant “pointedly foolish.” You can easily ...