Hard-boiled entertainment is leavened with a distinctively Aussie sense of humor in "The Hard Word," a slick genre item from writer-director Scott Roberts. With Guy Pearce as a veteran bank robber, ...

A Catholic parish priest writes to say that he has read the entire McCarrick Report, and offers these observations: Along with the observation about the obvious proliferation and acceptance of ...

If you're a fan of the daily New York Times Wordle puzzle, it is possible that you've been stumped a few times when trying to guess the word of the day. But new data has revealed some of the most ...

It is a time of sadness. Farewell frequently is. But time is inevitable. It is neither for you nor against you. It just is. And the time is finally here. I have been pelting you with words, hundreds ...

In the days leading up to the Scripps National Spelling Bee, the most difficult-to-spell words in the English language have been revealed, CNN reports. An international team of linguists who work for ...

Spoiler alert: The hard part about reading instruction is not figuring out how to teach reading. We actually know quite a bit about that. There has been renewed interest in discussing the findings of ...

Are “character” and “complications” such hard words? It seems they must be for this Aussie heist flick’s writer and first-time feature director Scott Roberts. Roberts opens this picture by framing and ...