Stieg Larsson’s punishing murder mystery made an icon out of Lisbeth Salander. Here’s how it came to be.

It’s a compressing of an earlier phrase that also yielded variations like ‘nilling, willing’ and ‘william-nilliam.’ ...

Great writers can assemble words into sentences that sing, flow, and teach. And in some cases, they can invent them. James Joyce ( Ulysses) was a profligate coiner of words, including ripripple ...