Roger Federer and Elmo from Sesame Street seem to disagree on the letters of the alphabet in a Super Bowl ad for ON running shoes.

Some US users have started replying to “Li Hua,” a name commonly used in Chinese middle school English exams. For decades, writing letters in English exams to an imaginary English-speaking ...

The most surprising thing about Peter Ames Carlin’s biography “The Name of This Band is R.E.M.” is how undramatic the story seems. R.E.M., in Mr. Carlin’s telling, is the band that did it ...