Two defining characteristics of the alt-right, the loosely organized online coalition of meme-loving racists, are that its members like being weird online and aren’t particularly fond of Jews. Keep ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Parentheses are useful. As the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) notes on the World Wide Web (WWW), “Parentheses () are used to ...

We still speak of “turning a page,” still aspire to be “open books” and recite “chapter and verse,” but our pages are now webpages, our books are now e-books and audiobooks, and our chapters and ...

At last, I had seen the true absurd hopelessness of things, laid out in flawless prose. By Ben Dolnick Mr. Dolnick is a novelist. A few years ago I got a note from a reader (written in the tone of ...