Six Tuscan Poets, by Giorgio Vasari, 1544.

Six Tuscan Poets, by Giorgio Vasari, 1544. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota.

Communication

Volume V, Number 2 | spring 2012

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Word Order

Lewis H. Lapham

Tape Delay

Madeline Miller

In the Panthéon

Philipp Blom

Body Language

Arika Okrent

Word for Word

Ben Zimmer

Native Tongues

Simon Winchester

Map

Living Languages

Miscellany

What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.

Papal overindulgence.

Mary, Queen of Scots’ spy game.

“Theory and Practice of Editing New Yorker Articles.”

Telegraphic code.

Charlemagne promotes literacy.

Sign language at the Stork Club.

Henry James and Ernest Hemingway on “the debasement of words by war.”

Marshall McLuhan on Shakespeare and television.

Revolutionary grammar.

A publishing mistake of biblical proportions.

Haircuts and Latin lessons.

Math and the music of the spheres.

Robert E. Lee, man of letters.

The only thing in life worse than being talked about.

Russell and Wittgenstein’s irreconcilable “value judgments.”

Voices In Time

In Favor of the Antescript

c. 1943 | Dublin

Drum Circle

1841 | Equatorial Guinea

In the Names of Progress

1896 | Shanghai

Broken English

1855 | Portugal

City Talk

1744 | New York

Talking Book

c. 1725 | Atlantic Ocean

Media Saturation

1992 | Washington, DC

Telling a True War Story

c. 1969 | Vietnam

What Is Love?

c. 1887 | Tuscumbia, AL

Spring Cleaning

213 BC | Qin

Breaking the Bad News

1961 | Washington, DC

Dissenting Opinion

1798 | Richmond

Horsepower

c. 1860 | United States

Borrowing a Simile

1885 | Camden, NJ

To the Barricades

2011 | Cairo

Instant Messaging

c. 1190 BC | Argos

Proofreading

1789 | Philadelphia

Music Is the Food of Soul

1818 | Dresden

Trains of Thought

1651 | London

Redefined

1906 | Washington, DC

The Imperial Faculty

1821 | Pisa

Going Viral

1518 | Wittenberg

Dating Manual

c. 1185 | Troyes

No Sex in the Prison Library

c. 1965 | San Quentin, CA

Tone of Voice

c. 365 BC | Athens

Spreading the Word

1312 | Vienne

Nothing to Say

1854 | Concord

Base Flattery

c. 1694 | Versailles

New Media

1846 | Paris

Turn On, Tune In

1915 | Congers, NY

Falling Off the Donkey

c. 350 | Syria

To Keep the Word Alive

1985 | Paris

Seen But Not Heard

1922 | New York City

One World, One Language

c. 2800 BC | Uruk

The High-Raised Literary Tone

1820 | London

Last Stand

2008 | New York City

On the Contrary

1983 | New York City

Invention of Letters

1826 | Philadelphia

Talking Cure

1966 | Cambridge, MA

Close Reading

1871 | Oxford

Synesthesia

1751 | Paris

What White Folks Call Verbal Skills

c. 1955 | Baton Rouge

Charts and Graphs

Marginalized

Invented Languages

Sticks and Stones

Treasured Up

How the Other Half Talks

Reform Movements

On the Record

Decoded

Font of History

The Medium and the Message

Contributors

Conversations

Francis Bacon & Joan Didion

Saint Benedict & Maurice Maeterlinck

Horace & Petrarch

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