"A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day." —Emily Dickinso She might have added that a word also begins to live the day it is read. Emily Dickinson wrote those ...

There will be no New York State Fair this year. To hold us over before next year’s extravaganza we thought it would be fun to go through our archives and look at fair coverage over the past 50 years.

Reviled for its gratuitous violence, dismissed as crude melodrama, and even questioned as to its Shakespearean authorship, Titus Andronicus, an early work of the poet/playwright, is making its first ...