WRITING

Learn about the SAT and ACT differences, including test format, scoring systems, and duration.

This St. Patrick’s Day, revisit literary classics by Irish authors like James Joyce and Roddy Doyle, plus discover a few new writers along the way with this roundup.

The link between singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and writer Nora Ephron is mostly a forgotten footnote in pop culture history, but the story behind it all is absolutely fascinating.

Latin isn’t widely spoken in Latin America, so why is it called that?

The novel, which turns 100 this year, was so successful that it allowed Woolf to put in a bathroom she called “Mrs. Dalloway’s closet.”

“Dear Miss Saucy ... I hereby order you to give me as many kisses and as many hours of your company as I shall please to demand.”

The agency needs help deciphering the flowing penmanship of the past.

The terms are more literal than you might have assumed.

The tale was composed as Stoker was working on his iconic vampire.

Plus, a simple trick that will help you identify most true cases of the passive voice. (Hint: It involves zombies.)

Series like R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps introduced '90s kids to horror at a young age.

“Once upon a midnight dreary” begins “The Raven,” setting the mood for one of the most recognizable poems written in English.