Can we save a great city from becoming a theme park?
Spotting the anachronisms in Downton Abbey
The phenomenally creative poetry of Ian Dury.
Excerpts from Randy Cohen’s Be Good, a book on moral dilemmas.
The writer behind many non-writers speaks.
The pitfalls an adjective can present.
Value engineering—it’s the opposite of how it sounds.
Are they the ones that will never be written?
A roundup of books on language in 2011.
Computerized analysis can tell us who we are.
Our stolen words for stealing.
Publishing has changed—and not for the better.
They ain’t what they used to be.
I want my maverick back!
Why language grows from the bottom up, not the top down.
Do you know these great last lines?
An agent who specializes in ghostwriters.
Oxford sixth-former Auriol Williamson takes pictures of people and their books.
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