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How to Speak New York

Building Something Together: Translators Discuss Their Art

The Philosophers Who Used Word Puzzles to Understand the World

A Belarusian Writer Who Calls for Poems Made of Barbed Wire

Lost, and Found, in Translation: 3 Picture Books About Language Turn Anglocentric Tropes on Their Head

A Tour of Writing’s History Bounces From Script to Script

How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity

The 20-Year Contest to Crack the Code of the Rosetta Stone

Word Up! Three Picture Books and a Graphic Novel Celebrate the Power and Joy of Language

He Is Senegalese and French, With Nothing to Reconcile

Katherine Barber, Who Defined Canadian English, Is Dead at 61

John McWhorter Takes a Serious Look at Profanity

Writing in Italian, Jhumpa Lahiri Found a New Voice

How Poets Use Punctuation as a Superpower and a Secret Weapon

Dispute Erupts Over Translation Rights to New Nobel Laureate

Reading Elena Ferrante in English? You’re Also Reading Ann Goldstein

The Biases We Hold Against the Way People Speak