We’ve seen so many books about the fall of our civilization, dystopian novels that focus on the ramifications for small and large communities alike. But what would happen to a community that’s ...

The cover of "When the English Fall." Placing the Amish at the center of a post-apocalyptic novel seems both unlikely and inspired. David Williams, the pastor of a Presbyterian church in Virginia, has ...

When the apocalypse arrives in David Williams' debut novel, it is beautiful. "The angels came and filled the heavens," writes Jacob, the Amish farmer whose late-night diaries narrate the collapse of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In 1859, a solar storm turned night into day around the world while downing telegraph systems. One can only imagine the havoc such an event would cause now. David Williams has, in a debut novel set in ...

The country’s 5 million English-language learner-students—three-quarters of whom speak Spanish as their home language, federal data show—faced unique challenges during the periods of remote schooling ...

The Fall of Language in the Age of English, by the Japanese novelist and scholar Minae Mizumura, has all the ingredients of a rage-read. Indeed, when it was published in Japan in 2008, it infuriated ...

Minae Mizumura's The Fall of Language in the Age of English is an eye-opening call to consciousness about the role of language: what it means for the fate of national languages at a time when English ...

A change to how a widely used English-proficiency test is scored has led to thousands of students being retained in English-language-learner classes and created budgeting and staffing challenges for ...

Ambivalence over the name of the third season of the year reflects its status as a relatively new concept. As natural as it seems today, people haven't always thought of the year in terms of four ...