October is the season of literary prizes: the Nobel, the Man Booker, the National Book Awards shortlist — accompanied every year by complaints and controversies. The more significant the prize, the ...

The US is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world, despite claims of it being a monolingual society. Multiethnic and/or bilingual individuals within the US face societal ...

Assets, gifts, capital, and resources are, at their most basic, the ability to get something done. Of course they come in many forms – skills, connections, know-how, money, tools, votes, spaces, etc.