Katie Fulton 600-book Christmas tree went viral, amassing more than 27 million views on TikTok Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 ...

Katie Fulton has loved reading for as long as she can remember. Originally from central New Jersey and now living in Media, Penn., the 37-year-old recalls struggling to learn to read in first grade ...

South Africa has added 21 new literary works to its cultural landscape with the official launch of the 2025 Department of Sport, Arts and Culture Publishing Hub grant recipients, held on Friday, ...

The works in the new John Edgar Wideman collection, “Languages of Home,” are technically essays, about, as the subtitle says, “Writing, Hoop, and American Lives.” But you’d be forgiven for mistaking ...

Despite the vast diversity of human languages, specific grammatical patterns appear again and again. A new study reveals that around a third of the long-proposed "linguistic universals"—patterns ...

Amazon just introduced an AI tool that will automatically translate books into other languages. The appropriately-named Kindle Translate is being advertised as a resource for authors that self publish ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — It’s a common problem that deserves its own term, “tree blindness.” It happens when you’re strolling through a neighborhood and realize you can’t identify any of the trees that ...

If you look at the location of the country of Belize, you may not identify it as a Caribbean country. While geographically on the continent of South America, Belize is considered a Caribbean country ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

Since 1992, Jack and Annie have taken readers to faraway lands and pivotal moments in history through the Magic Tree House books. This time, the tree house has landed in Monterey County.Author Mary ...

"Algospeak" by Albany native Adam Aleksic. Before he was breaking down internet language for millions of TikTok users, Adam Aleksic was just a kid growing up in Albany, fascinated by words and their ...

The archaeological site at Turkey’s Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Bronze Age Hittite empire, is a hotbed of ancient languages. During excavations of the ruins, archaeologists uncovered ...