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Leo Tolstoy's epic novel is the literary equivalent of a marathon and features a battle scene that goes on for more than 20 chapters.

The hit sitcom’s final episode was polarizing—even among its cast and creators.

Stop the presses—there is a rhyme for orange, and for purple. You just have to get creative (and maybe a little scientific).

Here are some of the most unforgettable books to earn the Women’s Prize for Fiction from celebrated authors like Zadie Smith, Téa Obreht, and others.

From allerednic to yob, these ananyms and semi-ananyms have backed their way into the dictionary.

Heller's irreverent outlook on life was shaped by his experiences as a bombardier pilot in World War II—and lots of dinners with Mel Brooks.

Sometimes there are words that you've seen, read, and maybe even used in conversation whose meaning you can never keep straight.

Wilma Rudolph made history as a Black woman athlete at the 1960 Rome Olympics, becoming the first American woman to win three gold medals at one Olympics.

As Khan Noonien Singh once said, “revenge is a dish best served cold,” and cinema is filled with stories where vengeance and retribution gets served with chilling brutality and precision. Here are 25 of the best of those tales.

After 31 years, the Labrador retriever is no longer at the top of the American Kennel Club’s annual list.

Today, Katherine Mansfield is considered one of the most influential modernist writers of the 20th century—but she considered a career as a professional cellist.

Googling how to spell ‘restaurant’ is nothing to be ashamed of.