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He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.

He was trained as a mathematician, but he gained fame in France, and won major prizes, for his modern verse.

Albertine, in a Fifth Avenue mansion, is a portal to both Gilded Age New York and the Francophone world.

The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896.

In a new book, two photographers memorialize the bird that charmed New York City and the world.

The self-help phenom’s new book is all about letting others do as they may. Can she follow her own advice?

A new biography of Goethe approaches its subject through his masterpiece and life’s work, the verse drama “Faust.”

The former “S.N.L.” writing partners have reunited for Rich’s “superficially wacky” Broadway show, “All In: Comedy About Love.”

Wildly popular strips like “Bloom County,” “Calvin and Hobbes,” “Cathy,” “The Far Side” “and “Doonesbury” peaked in the 1980s, but they left their mark.