“Why are so many people going ‘goblin mode’?” a headline in the Guardian asked last week. Once I figured out what the hell this even meant—per the paper, it’s a state defined by never getting out of ...

In late November, Merriam-Webster announced that its 2022 word of the year was gaslighting—a data-driven decision based on the number of (and year-to-year increase in) look-ups. Oxford Languages—the ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...