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An attention-grabbing, thought-provoking exploration of the life of the word "asshole," by a renowned linguist and author

It first surfaced in the gripes of GIs during World War II and was captured early on by the typewriter of a young Norman Mailer. Within a generation it had beco

There has never been, Nunberg writes, an age as wary as ours of the tricks words can play, obscuring distinctions and smoothing over the corrugations of the act

The author of The Seven Storey Mountain explores the mysticism of Saint John of the Cross. The only thing that can save the world from complete moral collapse i

A linguist’s entertaining and highly informed guide to what languages are and how they function. Think you know language? Think again. There are languages tha