The beef had been aged dry for 30 days, and it changed my life. Not the way you’re thinking. I didn’t eat the life-changing meat. I just read about it in an article I was editing — and my relationship ...

Hyphens can make all the difference in the world, at least in the world of proper diction and syntactical clarity. After all, living in a co-op is — hopefully — not the same as living in a coop, and ...

Have you noticed that, lately, you’re less inclined to stick a hyphen between words? That is, you’re looking at a term like “a time honored tradition,” realizing you could put a hyphen in ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Two schools of thought seem to exist on the placement of adverbs with compound verbs. One is easy: just stick it in front of the ...