From Wesley McNair’s wonderful piece about the late poet Donald Hall and his assistant Kendel Currier, three things are abundantly + more
From Wesley McNair’s wonderful piece about the late poet Donald Hall and his assistant Kendel Currier, three things are abundantly + more
“Not quite a cliché, not quite a term of art,” writes Olga Khazan, “a buzzword is a profound-seeming phrase devised + more
You’ve all heard the rule: “I before E except after C.” But as the great Stephen Fry points out, it’s…not + more
This one’s a beast: affect or effect? The simplest answer is that affect is a verb; effect is a noun. + more
Kwame Anthony Appiah has an interesting piece over at the Atlantic on language and usage, racial designation as social identity, + more
“People who don’t write think that writing is just the physical act,” says author Edward P. Jones, “but first come + more
“English is an immensely complicated language to get right,” writes Mark Forsyth, “and native speakers often have no idea of + more
Issue #94 of Nick Cave’s indispensable Red Hand Files tackles the thorny issue of plagiarism—and manages to draw an important + more
Of all my language-related pet peeves—and there are a lot of them, including the term pet peeve—it’s the verbs-as-nouns shift + more
Here’s more evidence for the theory that messiness and creativity are somehow connected: W. H. Auden was apparently a disgusting + more
About a block from helveticka world headquarters there’s a business that offers “Spokanes only 15 minute workout.” A missing apostrophe, + more
bricoleur (noun; French) one who creates without the aid of a plan or strategy “Aaron’s such a brilliant writer, I’ll + more
The definition of the word privilege, like that of racism, has lately been stretched so far as to have lost + more
“No matter where I’ve worked,” writes Molly Young in perhaps the greatest takedown of corporate-speak I’ve ever read, “it has + more
In light if this steaming pile of stupidity—in which one of the “concerns” raised against American Dirt is that the + more