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Native Tongues Simon Winchester recounts the more than forty-year journey of The Dictionary of Regional American English, a compendium of regional slang that publishes its final volume this year. More Essays
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Body Language From the wave to the shrug to the digitus impudicus, Arika Okrent breaks down the history and the subtleties of the ways we gesture. More EssaysReconsiderations
Word for Word The thesaurus is a book that is both praised and reviled among writers, useful to some and useless to others. Ben Zimmer traces Roget's original mission to create order out of linguistic chaos. More ReconsiderationsVoices in Time
1190 BC: Texting Clytemnestra, you have a new message from Hephaestus. More Voices in Time
Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987
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