How The Globe creates the giant Canada Day crossword and other puzzles, according to our games team

Readers asked how the editors write crosswords, focusing on Canadian-made puzzles and if games are good for brain health ...

The Founding Father Who Sought a Last-Minute Deal to Avert the Revolution

Recently discovered documents reveal a back-channel attempt by a leader of the Continental Congress to make peace. (He did ...

‘Basic Instinct’ Writer Joe Eszterhas Gives Update On Reboot, Catherine Tramell Is Back

After nearly 35 years, Joe Eszterhas is back to basics with the follow-up to his 1992 erotic thriller 'Basic Instinct'.

America’s greatest piece of writing

Thomas Jefferson was tasked with drafting a wartime document declaring independence. How did it become one of history’s most enduring symbols?
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Is this sentence in the Declaration of Independence really the greatest ever written?

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...
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A list of funny and tricky JavaScript examples

JavaScript is a great language. It has a simple syntax, large ecosystem and, what is most important, a great community. At the same time, we all know that JavaScript is quite a funny language with ...