The complicated saga of race in this country has dozens of punctuation points. Birmingham and Selma, the summer of the freedom riders, King’s life and oratory and his awful death, Lyndon Johnson’s ...

I made this point during the Dark ZP review, in my signature frivolous style, but it’s an issue that stands out pretty prominently in The Bureau, too: there’s a staggeringly wide gulf between the ...

I thought an aggressive period was a whole other thing. I was set straight the day I responded to a text from the 26-year-old in my life with “No.” I love punctuation. The elegance of the semi-colon.

This week on Extra Punctuation, Yahtzee examines the tonal issues of many current AAA video games, including the tone of a game like God of War Ragnarok and Sonic Frontiers. Games industry, your ...

Punctuation is a concept borrowed from communication theory and applied to family systems and other arenas of conflict. Bateson provided the example of a couple in which one partner nags and the other ...

Punctuation is used in direct speech to separate spoken words, or dialogue, from the rest of a story. The words spoken by a character sit inside speech marks: “Did you hear that noise?” whispered Sam.

In fiction writing, it is really important for readers to understand which character is saying what. In order to make this clear, writers use direct speech: Direct speech is any word spoken by a ...