Gossip is everywhere. On one estimate, from Megan Robbins and Alexander Karan of University of California, Riverside, people spend 52 minutes a day on average talking about other people. Gossip ...

The gossip girls behind the internet’s favorite podcast have some new faces and new sounds for the upcoming season. Defector Media announced Tuesday that duo Kelsey McKinney and Alex Sujong Laughlin ...

Young businesswoman listening to her colleague telling her a secret on a seminar in board room. Focus is on man. An intricate dance is unfolding in today’s workplaces, where gossip masquerades as ...

Before there was social media, there was gossip. Long before tweets could topple reputations, whispers did the job just fine—sometimes with deadlier precision. Gossip fed the frenzy of the Salem Witch ...

Re “Gossip: It’s Fun, It’s Natural, and These People Won’t Do It,” by Michal Leibowitz (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 31): Ms. Leibowitz assumes that the majority of “gossip” — talking about people who ...

In August, 1918, Virginia Woolf spent a quiet stretch at Asheham, the country house that she and her husband, Leonard, rented in rural Sussex. “We’ve been practically alone, which has a very spiritual ...