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I was gripped by fear, aching all over – and still recovering from cancer treatment. But Dancing With the Stars was a joyous celebration of survival ...

We are officially in the NFL preseason. Players are competing for spots while coaches are tasked with building their rosters — and trimming the fat. Today we’re joined by The Athletic’s senior ...

Lora Kelley is a freelance writer in Brooklyn covering tech, economics and books. In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he reveals what the ...

Brown produced the second-highest number of Fulbright scholars in the nation for the 2025-26 academic year, remaining in the top three nationally for the tenth consecutive year, according to data ...

In an era of search engines and algorithm-inspired slang, dictionaries can seem like analog relics. But for writer Stefan Fatsis — who spent time working for America’s oldest dictionary publisher, ...

Journalist Stefan Fatsis, a former NPR sports commentator and the author of several books, has written a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how dictionaries are made and how they evolve. Tom's ...

In his new book, "Unabridged," Stefan Fatsis unspools the history of the modern dictionary - including why Americans spell colors and favorite without the letter "u." Dictionary.com’s word of the year ...

Ontario MP Michael Ma's floor-crossing from the Conservative caucus to government benches has rattled the official opposition and left the Liberals cheering at their annual holiday party. With one ...

A rumor that has circulated online since November 2024 claims that a man from New Zealand, Nigel Richards, won a Spanish-language Scrabble championship without even speaking the language. The rumor ...

Are dictionaries going the way of dodos, pocket calculators and civil discourse? Some dictionaries are still printed but, increasingly, the reference books have moved online. And, as Stefan Fatsis ...

If you look up “microaggression” or “sheeple” or “safe space” on the website of the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the entries won’t have a byline—but their author is Stefan Fatsis. A longtime journalist ...