A writer stumbles upon a tiny, motionless creature on a country road and, against all good advice, takes it home. The resulting memoir, Raising Hare, is a lovely meditation on nature and our relationship to it. And: have you ever invented a fake...
For this week’s puzzle, Quiz Guy John Chaneski asks you to move the final letter of one word to the beginning to get a new word. For example, in the case of the word earth, the H circles around to become heart. Given those parameters, try figuring...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski dons his deerstalker cap and offers a cryptic puzzle in which the combination of two clued words results in a single word. Take, for example, this clue: “A word meaning ‘distant,’ and the end of him is where you’ll find things...
Why do speakers of the same language have different accents? A lively new book called Why We Talk Funny offers a linguist’s look at how and why accents develop. And: If you’ve “stood up” at a wedding, were you supporting the marriage or objecting to...
For this week’s puzzle, Quiz Guy John Chaneski has been swapping out a single letter within each of three words in a category. Suppose, for example, the category is fruit. What three fruits might you produce by changing just one letter in each of...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a take-off puzzle involving the letters V and W. Each sentence clues two words, one of which has lost either a V or a W. For example, what two words does the following sentence suggest? He plugged his guitar into the...