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How milliners talk when they talk about hats

Raffaella Barker

Happy Hundredth, Dad

The poet George Barker remembered.

Monday, March 4th, 2013

Book Signing Blues

The perils of self-promotion.

Sunday, January 6th, 2013

Scribble, Scribble

Handwriting: not quite a lost art?

Tuesday, November 6th, 2012

Michael M. Thomas

Scrivener

Finally, a writing program for writers.

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

Edward Schneider

A Literary Hotel

Sleep with great writers at Paris’s Pavillon des Lettres.

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

My Favorite Things

Happy mistranslations and misspellings.

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Beside the Seaside

The glories of British beaches.

Monday, December 19th, 2011

Wrestling Match

Is translation ultimately futile?

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

The Long March

Learning Chinese: the great wall of difficulty.

Monday, October 10th, 2011

Stephen M. Silverman

The Morgue Is Dead

Newspaper talk: gone with the eyeshades.

Sunday, September 11th, 2011

Brigadier Muhammad Mehboob Qadir (ret.)

Empowered English 1

Dispatches from English’s front lines.

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Second Childhood

What is it about adults and spelling bees?

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Randy Cohen & Matt Heimer

The Collective Will

A reading group for just one author.

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

Juliet Sydenham

Giving It Away

The joy of handing out free books to strangers.

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

Véronique Vienne

Tu

Tu: Parsing the grammar of love, à la française.

Monday, February 14th, 2011

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