A college professor spent seven years decoding the inscription on the grave of the writer Jonathan Swift. He thinks he’s ...

An epitaph is a single sentence or phrase usually placed on a tombstone. This short comment is supposed to summarize an individual's life or accomplishments in a single phrase. Epitaphs were very ...

I often get emails about flaws readers find in obituaries: the misplaced modifier that suggests someone was the 10th child in a family to be born in one day; the sometimes flowery words that merely ...

I like to think that, of all the ways to express one’s unique brand of nerdery, we music geeks are an extra special breed. Whether you’re a rabid record collector or a burgeoning singer/songwriter or ...

Hamlet teaches much. The play taught me that the dead depend upon the living to tell their story. The dead, after all, first linger in our thoughts and prayers and then disappear inside old photograph ...

Each word carries a story, but not all words are imbued with emotional or cultural significance. One such word is “epitaph.” The word epitaph is greater than a mere word; it is a tribute, a memory, ...

Bring Me the Horizon made the jump to Sony labels RCA and Columbia for their 2015 release That's the Spirit, but before that they enjoyed quite the run with Epitaph Records. In celebration of their ...

AMPED, the indie distribution division of wholesale giant Alliance Entertainment, has entered an agreement to serve as the U.S. physical distributor for Epitaph and its sister imprint, Anti-. By Chris ...

The nine gunmen who blazed away at each other in 1881 have been trotted out to the vicinity of the O.K. Corral so many times it’s a wonder there’s any literary life left in them. In the hands of Mary ...