Dear Miss Manners: My daughters play competitive soccer. It is understood, and often in the rule book, that the parents of ...

I tried to talk about this character in what I hoped was a light way, he said, coldly and dismissively, “I don’t care what ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to politely declining unwanted help from a store ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My stepson is a successful novelist. I’m reading an advanced copy of his new book, which is brilliant but ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My stepson is a successful novelist. I’m reading an advanced copy of his new book, which is brilliant, but ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to when offering feedback on a novel backfires.

When I tried to talk about this character in what I hoped was a light way, he said, coldly and dismissively, “I don’t care ...

All authors crave discerning feedback. All authors also crave praise. The trick is knowing which to give when. Miss Manners ...

I asked her if she would mind if I looked through the samples myself, and she gave me the sample book, but continued to hover ...

This hurt my feelings. Noting his defensiveness, I left the conversation, but afterwards, his father and I fought. He thought ...

GENTLE READER: When you asked for time alone with the sample book, the polite thing for the clerk to have done would have been to grant it. So Miss Manners has no objection to your acting as if that ...