Some of those letters were published in the Sunday, Dec. 28, "Open Forum" section. Wood himself objected to the Register's headline, "An Iowa farmer and his wife." "The people in American Gothic ...

Have you noticed the strange, inexplicable, seemingly random appearance of the letter J in some e-mail messages? Usually it crops up at the end of sentences, though sometimes it lands smack in the ...

I am a graduate of the University of Chicago, another Gothic wonderland. For me, the carillon provided the message that I was someplace grand and not merely passing time in the trade school of the ...