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Jonathan Letham: Is “Hipster” Pejorative?

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Jonathan Letham: Is “Hipster” Pejorative?

“Sicilian is like English: sharp, short, the less said the better”

“Sicilian is like English: sharp, short, the less said the better”

Thunder, sunlight, sweet dew, whirlwind

Thunder, sunlight, sweet dew, whirlwind

Derek Beaulieu: A Future for the Novel

Derek Beaulieu: A Future for the Novel

Questions

‘I love the dirty ones more than the minced’

Dimber-Cove and Mulligrubs

Born Fluent

Alice Gregory: Refresh to See

Alice Gregory: Refresh to See

What was the Cavern of the Winds doing here, given Larkin’s scorn for “the myth kitty”?

Modern Warfare 2 and modern warfare

Adonis: “Every artist is an exile within his own language”

‘Of course, there are few things more politically dangerous within an English Department than teaching something popular with students’

‘Of course, there are few things more politically dangerous within an English Department than teaching something popular with students’

Daniel Everett on the Nature of Language

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Daniel Everett on the Nature of Language

Like Golems

‘The spread of “Ms.” over the past forty years both simplifies and complicates the title paradigm.’

Swift’s Canister of Salt

‘Facebook feeds on fiction; it consumes it, and spits it out in every direction.’

“This reads like rock and/or roll.”

“It’s all about language. If there are no culturally accepted words to describe an experience, it remains off the radar.”