In non-fiction works, including introductions to fiction, Isaac Asimov often gave titles to people in certain positions, such as "the gentle reader", "the noble printer", and "the ??? editor". Is there a list of these expressions somewhere?

Here, in the following context from "Elizabeth Finch" by Julian Barnes, E.F. is takling about "Mono"s, The last bolded sentence about "Monorchid" seems to be an odd joke, but I don't get it. Because there are a lot of states that inspire compassion and to which one cannot aspire. 'Monotheism,’ s...

Are there any plays that are directed to be performed, either in their majority or entirety, in stage whispers? I'm aware of the stage whisper as a device to "let the audience in" on a character's internal monologue, but I'm looking for plays that use the stage whisper in a more expanded capacity...

Was there really a whale skeleton in Jaffa or at least a common myth about it? I cannot find any historical reference to it but still believe, from the way he wrote Moby Dick, that Melville did not make up this fact: for in the ancient Joppa, now Jaffa, on the Syrian coast, in one of the Pagan t...